What Baba Siddique’s murder tells about Mumbai’s crime scene in last one year

On October 5, NCP (Ajit Pawar faction) leader Sachin Kurni was stabbed to death near his residence in Byculla. The police had arrested three persons in the case and said that Kurni was killed over a dispute regarding an RTI application filed by the deceased.

On April 14 this year, henchmen from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang had fired outside the Bandra residence of actor Salman Khan, with a few bullets even ending up inside his house. The attack came despite the Bollywood actor having high security near his residence.

A week prior to that, on April 7, a firing incident had taken place due to a financial dispute in which an accused, identified as Vijay Shettiar, fired on one Akash Kadam in the Antop Hill area. Shettiar was later arrested from Dombivli.

On February 8 this year, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Abhishek Ghosalkar was shot over a personal dispute in the Dahisar area in Mumbai by one Maurice Noronha. The firing was also streamed live on Facebook.

A few days prior to that, on February 2, an incident happened inside the Hill Line police station. BJP MLA Ganpat Gaikwad had gone to the police station, along with his supporters, to discuss a dispute over land matters. It is then that Mahesh Gaikwad, a Shinde Sena party worker, too, reached there to discuss matters related to the same piece of land.

The two groups started fighting following which Gaikwad allegedly took out his licensed revolver and fired at two persons, including Mahesh Gaikwad, inside the senior inspector’s cabin. The video of the incident had gone viral.

In December last year, local gangster Sumit Yerunkar was shot dead and four others injured, including an eight-year-old girl. The local police made arrests in the case and said that a builder and a rival gangster were behind the firing.