Baba Siddique murder: Third accused arrested, search on for three others
The man arrested on Sunday has been identified as Pravin Lonkar, the brother of an alleged member of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s group.
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The Mumbai Police Crime Branch on Sunday arrested Pravin Lonkar, another accused in the murder of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, India Today reported.
Siddique, 66, a member of the Nationalist Congress Party faction led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, was shot dead allegedly by three men in the city’s Bandra East area on Saturday evening.
Pravin Lonkar was arrested in Pune. He is the brother of Shubham Lonkar, an alleged member of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s group. Shubham Lonkar had claimed in a social media post that the Bishnoi gang was responsible for Siddique’s murder.
Three accused in the case have been arrested so far. The Crime Branch has identified six suspects.
While Pravin Lonkar, Gurmail Singh and another accused who claims to be a minor have been arrested, three other suspects – Shubham Lonkar, Shiv Kumar Gautam and Mohammad Zeeshan Akhtar – are absconding.
Gautam and the accused claiming to be a minor, who are two of the three alleged assailants, were employed at a scrap shop in Pune, located next to Pravin Lonkar’s dairy shop, India Today quoted unidentified police officials as saying. Pravin Lonkar and Shubham Lonkar hired Gautam and the other accused to execute the murder of Siddique, the police said.
On Sunday, Shubham Lonkar claimed in a post on Facebook that Siddique was killed due to his...
