Mumbai, Oct 25 (PTI) Mumbai Police on Friday arrested an individual within the homicide case of NCP chief Baba Siddique from Ludhiana in Punjab.
Sujit Sushil Singh (32), a resident of Ghatkopar in Mumbai and the fifteenth individual to be held within the high-profile case, was linked to absconding accused Zeeshan Akhtar, one of many alleged masterminds of the killing, a criminal offense department official mentioned.
Elsewhere, the investigators seized a pistol from the rented home of one of many arrested accused in Panvel space close to Mumbai.
Within the hierarchy of the conspirators, Sujit was above Nitin Sapre and Ram Kanoujia (each arrested), the official mentioned, including that Sujit and Akhtar took directions from above and handed them to Sapre and Kanoujia.
Sujit, resident of Chheda Nagar in Ghatkopar, fled Mumbai a month earlier than the crime which came about on October 12, and was staying together with his family in Ludhiana, the official mentioned.
Crime department officers additionally traced his monetary transactions with Kanoujia and Sapre, the official mentioned. The cash was given to the alleged shooters and others concerned within the crime, he added.
The masterminds used totally different individuals to offer cash to the members of various “modules” of shooters employed for the killing of the NCP chief, the official mentioned.
Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique (66) was shot lifeless by three gunmen close to his MLA son Zeeshan Siddique’s workplace in Mumbai’s Bandra space on October 12.
In the meantime, a pistol and three bullets have been recovered from Ram Kanoujia’s rented home in Palaspe space of Panvel city in neighbouring Raigad district, the crime department official mentioned.
Kanoujia (43), arrested final week, was a part of the group that allegedly supplied firearms and logistical help to the shooters.
A courtroom right here on Friday prolonged until October 26 the police remand of 9 accused individuals.
Whereas police sought the extension of remand by three days, the courtroom prolonged it by in the future.
The 9 accused produced earlier than the courtroom have been Gurnail Baljit Singh (23), Dharmaraj Kashyap (21), Harish Kumar Nisad (26), Pravin Lonkar (30), Nitin Gautam Sapre (32), Sambhaji Kisan Pardhi (44), Pradeep Dattu Thombre (37), Chetan Dilip Pardhi and Ram Fulchand Kanoujia (43).
As per police, Haryana resident Gurnail Singh and Uttar Pradesh native Kashyap alongwith needed accused Shivkumar Gautam shot Siddique.
Shubham Lonkar and Mohammed Zeeshan Akhtar too are needed within the case. Shubham, who has hyperlinks with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, allegedly hatched the homicide conspiracy with the opposite needed accused.
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