The Mumbai bandit killers who shot dead former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique in Mumbai’s Bandra last week is said to have one of the suspect who was quizzed by the Mumbai Police after firing near the residence of bioscope hero Salman Khan in April this year was released for want of proof.
Police added in the probe that Shubham Lonkar has become an accused involved in conspiracy of Siddique’s murder who was a three time MLA and NCP leader and part of Ajit Pawar faction.
They said Lonkar who is now grasping with the Galaxy Apartments Bandra where a firing was done outside Salman Khan’s house is believed to be a member of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang and one of the people who were picked by the police for questioning. Some claimed that his name was used by: Many others, who were interrogated in the case. They added that Lonkar was fired for allegedly harbouring the suspects in the firing case but the management could not substantiate the claim with sufficient proof.
Police had claimed to NDTV earlier that Lonkar along with his brother Pravin Lonkar were two of the main planners of Baba Siddique murder and had roped in two of the shooters Dharamraj Kashyap and Shiv Kumar Gautam. Yet another comment posted on Facebook on Sunday claimed the Lawrence Bishnoi gang’s role in Baba Siddique’s killing shot from Shubham Lonkar’s account was also fake.
While Pravin was arrested from Pune on Sunday evening, his brother Shubham is yet absconding.
For the first time, the police named the Lonkar brothers in court on Monday saying the Bishnoi gang could be behind Siddique’s murder.
Warning Post About Baba Siddique Murder Case
Writing in a Facebook post, Lonkar said Siddique was killed because he was connected to India’s most wanted fugitive, Dawood Ibrahim; was a friend of Bollywood star Salman Khan; and Anuj Thapan, an arrested suspect in the shooting of the star outside his house had died in police custody.
Thapan died on May 1 while in the lock-up of Mumbai Crime Branch. The police had said he killed himself but his family had said he was inside when he was being tortured.
“We have problem with none but those aiding Salman Khan and the Dawood gang, ‘hisab-kitaab kar lena,’ needed for your coffers,” Lonkar wrote in Hindi in the Facebook post, the veracity of which is yet to be ascertained.
Over time, greater security has been placed in Mr Khan’s home in Bandra and the farmhouse in Panvel, near Mumbai.
PANVEL FARMHOUSE UNDER WATCH
After the assassination of Baba Siddique, It also noted that security has also been increased at Salman Khan’s farmhouse in Maharashtra Panvel. There are also reports that security forces have been posted within and around the farm house, sources add.
Besides, some barriers have been erected by the Navi Mumbai Police at many places so that the vehicles coming around the farmhouse can be examined. The farmhouse has only one entrance road and it is blocked by a village in the first part of the road.
This year in June, police of Mumbai prevented a deadly attack planned on Salman khan near the farmhouse. The Lawrence Bishnoi gang initially intended to execute Khan outside his farmhouse when he came out in his car and eliminate him by firing AK-47 rifles.
It occurred two months after two bike-borne men fired shots in the air outside actor Salman Khan’s residence, Galaxy Apartments in Bandra.
WAS SECURITY BOOSTED AT BIGG BOSS SET After Baba Siddique’s Murder?
Superstar Salman Khan is back as the host of India’s favorite Tv reality show Bigg Boss for it’s 18th edition. As the show manager, when Salman Khan plans to shoot for the forthcoming Weekend Ka Vaar episode, his team would be around, upping his security protocol, informed sources said to India Today TV.
As everyone saw recently there were threats to kill Salman and after that he had a huge security with him. That will again be present out there during the shoot as it is normally the case. For now, there is nothing on the change in Salman’s shooting time,” the source said further.
Baba Siddique died a day after Salman Khan filmed the last weekend episode of Bigg Boss on Friday, 11 October.
In another source it has been stated that presently, Salman Khan is not taking part in the shooting of his next film Sikandar. The team had done a schedule they had and soon they will be on the next one.
BABA SIDDIQUE’S MURDER
Baba Siddique was assassinated on Saturday, 12 of October outside his office in Mumbai. Two gunmen and their accomplice were arrested the following day.
In a Facebook post, the Lawrence Bishnoi gang took the responsibility of the murder. The gang said that they offered Siddique to threaten him to break his proximity with Salman Khan and also having connections with the likes of Dawood Ibrahim.
He also stated FBI’s charges accused Anuj Thapan, the man who fired at Khan’s home earlier, who later committed suicide in police custody.
