India, Aug. 29 -- The Mumbai police's crime branch has made its 27th arrest in the murder case of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) minister Baba Siddique. The arrested accused was identified as Amol Gaikwad, a resident of Pune's Warje area, who was apprehended in Kolhapur, where he was hiding.

Officials said Gaikwad had been on the run since his name cropped up during the police's investigation into the October 2024 murder and was in touch with the alleged mastermind, Shubham Lonkar, and his brother, Pravin Lonkar, a co-accused. Shubham, who allegedly worked for the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, is still on the run, while Pravin was arrested days after the murder, officials added.

"On the basis of technical evidence, we picked Gaikwad up from ...