Baba Siddique murder: Five persons, including main shooter, arrested from UP
Hindustan TimesMUMBAI: A month after the killing of senior NCP leader Baba Siddique in Bandra by three shooters, the Mumbai Crime Branch, along with the Uttar Pradesh’s Special Task Force, arrested the alleged main shooter, Shivkumar Gautam, and his four associates from UP’s Bahraich district close to the Indo-Nepal border on Sunday. A month after the killing of senior NCP leader Baba Siddique in Bandra by three shooters, the Mumbai Crime Branch, along with the Uttar Pradesh’s Special Task Force, arrested the alleged main shooter, Shivkumar Gautam. The other four arrested accused—Anurag Kashyap who is Shivkumar’s brother, Gyan Prakash Tripathi, Akash Shrivastava and Akhilendra Pratap Singh—are also natives of Gandara, and provided shelter to him when he was on the run. A joint team of STF sub-inspector Javed Siddiqui, constable Munendra Singh and constable Ajit Kumar Singh along with Mumbai Crime Branch inspector Amol Kumar Mali went to Nanpara, and before Shivkumar managed to flee, arrested all five suspects.