Siddique murder probe 'totally misleading': Widow
MUMBAI, Nov. 8 -- Shehzeen Siddique, the widow of the slain former minister Baba Siddique, on Friday moved the Bombay High Court seeking an independent, impartial and court-monitored investigation into his murder.
She also rubbished the charge sheet filed by the police in the case, calling it a "mockery of justice". She claimed that the police's investigation was "incomplete and totally misleading", adding that they had not probed the possibility of a powerful builders' lobby being behind the brutal crime.
NCP leader Baba Siddique, 66, was shot dead by three assailants outside his son and former MLA Zeeshan's office in Bandra (East) on the night of October 12, 2024. The Mumbai police's investigation linked the murder to the notorious Lawrence Bishnoi gang. The shooting was allegedly ordered by Lawrence Bishnoi's brother, Anmol Bishnoi, who is currently wanted.
In her petition, filed through advocate Trivankumar Karnani, Shehzeen Siddique stated that the police's charge sheet lists the "so-called" main accused, Anmol Bishnoi, and two co-accused, Mohammed Yasin Akhtar and Shubham Rameshwar Lonkar, as wanted. "Except for prescribing the sections of laws applied, it does not give the name of the fourth wanted man", the petition said.
Highlighting that 26 accused individuals are already in judicial custody, Siddique stated that an application for permission to conduct further investigation into the offence was submitted by the special public prosecutor before the special MCOCA court on April 21, 2025. However, it was later withdrawn on May 6 "for the best reasons known to him" (sic).
Siddique claimed that the investigation had been "abandoned to save the persons actually involved in the murder, who are powerful in politics and are influential". She demanded to know the names of the persons involved, alleging that they were a lobby of builders interested in lucrative SRA projects in the constituencies of Baba and Zeeshan Siddique.
The petition also claimed that Baba Siddique got threatening messages from a certain Prithvijeet Chavan in July last year. "The messages definitely establishes the fact and reflects that Prithvijeet Chavan and his lobby are not ordinary builders, but they have strong ties with the powerful politicians and have either the backing of or the association or the partnership with powerful politicians in ambitious SRA projects (sic)," said the petition.
Shehzeen also highlighted that the entire investigation revolved around the logic that Anmol Bishnoi had ordered Baba Siddique's murder to take revenge, which she said was misleading. "This conclusion cannot be supported unless the reason for taking the revenge against him is brought on record," she said in her petition....
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