Baba Siddique killing: Suspects from Haryana, Punjab and UP, two with criminal records
The three-time MLA Baba Siddique was shot dead by three persons in Bandra East on Saturday evening. OF THE three suspected shooters, two — Dharmaraj Kashyap who has been arrested and Shivkumar Gautam who is on the run — were from the same village in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh and had no criminal history, police said. The third, Gurmail Singh, from Kaithal district of Haryana, was arrested in a murder case in 2019.
Police on Sunday named a fourth suspect, Mohammad Zeeshan Akhtar (22), alias Mohammad Yaseen Akhtar, a resident of Nokodar in Punjab’s Jalandhar district, who also has a criminal record, and is suspected to have links with gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldy Brar.
Chandigarh: While one of the two shooters, Gurmail Singh nabbed by the Mumbai police, in the sensational murder of NCP leader Baba Siddique, has a Haryana connection, it has identified another accused as Yasin Akhtar, who is a native of Punjab’s Jalandhar district.
While the two shooters already arrested by the Mumbai police are Gurmail Singh from Haryana and an Uttar Pradesh native Dharmaraj Kashyap; another accused Shiv Kumar is on the run. The Mumbai police has also identified another accused, Yasin Akhar, who is a native of Jalandhar district of Punjab.
According to Haryana police, Singh, has a prior criminal history, including a murder case against him; A native of village Narhar in district Kaithal, Singh had murdered one Sunil, brother of his friend Ashok in 2019 by stabbing him over 50 times with a sharp-edged weapon. He was caught and was sent to Kaithal jail where he got in touch with several gangsters; he was learnt to have run away to Mumbai after getting bail in 2022. Singh was close to gangster Rohit Godara, who was a close associate of notorious gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.
According to police Singh’s parents had passed away; his other family members said that the family had disowned him 11 years ago. Media reports also quoted his grandmother as saying that he meant nothing to the family and that the family did not need him whether he lived or died. It had been over four months that the family had heard from him, she said.
With Thanks Reference to:https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/baba-siddique-s-murder-shooter-singh-belongs-to-haryana-another-accused-from-punjab/ar-AA1sc9d4?ocid=BingNewsSerp and https://indianexpress.com/article/india/baba-siddique-killing-suspects-from-haryana-punjab-and-up-two-with-criminal-records-9618893/
