The Mumbai police have confirmed the involvement of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi in the killing of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique on Saturday night.
Siddique, 66, was shot dead by three assailants, two of whom have been detained. Though the Bishnoi gang wreaked havoc in the city with threats and firing outside actor Salman Khan’s Bandra residence in April, it had not been involved in killings in the city until Siddique’s murder. The gang has been involved in extortion killings in north Indian states, including the murder of a gym owner last month in Delhi.
Bishnoi, who is currently lodged at Sabarmati Central Jail in Ahmedabad, has garnered considerable notoriety due to his constant threats to Salman Khan. The actor came on the gang’s radar after his reported killing of a blackbuck during a film shooting in 1998. Blackbuck is considered holy by the Bishnoi community.
As per the police, Bishnoi’s brother Anmol and top aide Rohit Godara, suspected to be based out of the United States and Canada, have been running his gang from the outside.
