Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique shot dead in Mumbai
Opposition leaders said that the three-time MLA’s killing exposed the ‘complete collapse of law and order’ in the state.
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Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, a member of the Nationalist Congress Party faction led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, was shot dead in Mumbai on Saturday evening.
Siddique was shot allegedly by three men in the city’s Bandra East area. He was taken to the Lilavati Hospital, where he died during treatment, ANI reported.
Two of the alleged shooters have been arrested, and the police are searching for the third one. The two men arrested have been identified as Karnail Singh from Haryana and Dharamraj Kashyap from Uttar Pradesh.
The police said that the assailants fired six to seven rounds of bullets at the former minister when he left his son Zeeshan Siddique’s office and was about to get into his car, The Indian Express reported. Two bullets hit him in the chest, and one in the abdomen.
The killing took place on a day when the police were on high alert due to the annual Dussehra rallies that were held by the rival factions of the Shiv Sena. Opposition leaders questioned the state government for failing to ensure law and order and urged it to take responsibility for the killing.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde described the killing as extremely unfortunate and said he has directed the police to ensure that no one takes law and order into...
