Officials said on Monday that days after the murder of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, the Mumbai Police, which is investigating the case, got the bone test done on the accused, Dharamraj Kashyap, which proved that he was not a minor.
Last Saturday evening, when Mumbai Police was already on high alert due to two Dussehra rallies by Shiv Sena, Siddiqui, a three-time MLA from Bandra West constituency, was shot dead by three men in Bandra East.According to the police, when Siddiqui was leaving his son’s office and going to his car, the attackers fired 6-7 rounds at him. Two bullets hit him in the chest, while one hit his abdomen.
One of their accomplices, who was present during the shooting, managed to escape the scene at the time. Gurmail Baljit Singh, 23, of Haryana, and Dharmaraj Rajesh Kashyap, 19, of Uttar Pradesh, were taken into custody by Mumbai police. Later on Sunday night, in a late-evening development, the Mumbai Police crime branch took into custody Pune resident Pravin Lonkar, 28. He is Shubham Lonkar’s brother, who is connected to the Nirmal Nagar shooting case.
According to a source, Kashyap’s attorney argued in court that his client was a minor when the crime branch team brought the accused in court.
The official further stated that Kashyap’s ossification test, which the court ordered on Sunday, verified he was not a minor. After that, Kashyap was brought before the court and placed under arrest by the police until October 21. According to the official, the brothers allegedly recruited Kashyap and Shivkumar Gautam in their planned plan to kill Siddique. Further investigation is ongoing, he added.
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