Taking to instagram, Uttar Pradesh Shiv Kumar Gautam posted a picture of himself donning a grey checkered shirt and blue denim jeans, posing with a TVS Raider motorcyle. “Yaar tera gangster hai jaani (your friend is a gangster)” Gautam had captioned his photo post on his Instagram account
Gautam hails from Gandara village in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, where locals and police said he had no criminal history. They added that he had gone to work at a scrap shop in Maharashtra’s Pune.
With 511 followers at the time of writing this story, and following 49 accounts including PM Narendra Modi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Union Minister Chirag Paswan, the accused has so far made 33 posts.
Another post of his on July 8 was captioned “Sharif baap hai # (expletives) hum nahin”. On May 26, he posted a brief video of a city skyline along with background music from “KGF”, a film about a mercenary, with its dialogue “powerful people make places powerful”.
His mother, after hearing about his involvement in the murder of Baba Siddique, Suman, had expressed shock and disbelief over the police’s claim that Gautam was among those involved in the sensational killing of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former lawmaker Baba Siddique (66) at Kher Nagar in Mumbai’s Bandra area, just outside his son Zeeshan Siddique’s office, on Saturday night. Baba Siddique was rushed to the Lilavati Hospital, where he was declared dead.
Suman told the media that her son had last visited her in Gandara during Holi. She had claimed that after the visit, Gautam left for Pune in the first week of April.
Gautam’s Instagram profile showed his last post on the social media platform was on August 4, when he had posed for a photo on a motorcycle.
A post on April 10 showed him working at a warehouse, packing orders. The video was captioned “yeh kam karte hain hum order ready karne ka”. His other posts largely carried cryptic messages about heartbreak while one was about religious pride.