‘We do not have any enmity with anyone but whoever helps Salman Khan and the Dawood gang, keep your accounts in order,’ read the Facebook post in Hindi by ‘Shibu Lonkar’, believed to be the Bishnoi gang associate Shubham Rameshwar Lonkar.
Mumbai: A day after veteran politician and former minister Baba Siddique was shot dead, the mystery deepened over the killing even as the Lawrence Bishnoi gang claimed the responsibility of the sensational murder that shook Maharashtra’s political class.
The Mumbai Police has formed 15 teams and several detectives have been fanned out to multiple locations in five states in search of the killers.
The police are probing different angles, including a possible contract killing, business rivalry, personal disputes or threat over a slum rehabilitation project in Mumbai.
Any international links to the crime is also under investigation.
Siddique (66) was shot outside the office of his son Zeeshan Siddique, an MLA near the Colgate Ground in Nirmal Nagar near Khetwadi in Bandra East.
He was rushed to the Lilavati Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on admission.
On Sunday morning, the post-mortem was conducted at the Cooper Hospital after which the body was handed over to the family for cremation at the Bada Kabrastan in Marine Lines.
After the FIR at the Nirmal Nagar police station, the Crime Branch-CID took over the investigations.
Two of the shooters – Gurmail Singh (23) from Haryana and Dharamraj Kashyap from Uttar Pradesh were caught by locals and police personnel.