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Charges framed against 27 in Baba Siddique murder case
NCP leader Baba Siddique was shot dead on October 12, 2024, while leaving the office of his son, former MLA Zeeshan, in Bandra (East), by three assailants.
The late NCP leader Baba Siddique along with Bollywood actor Salman Khan (Source: PTI photo)
A special court on Tuesday framed charges against 27 persons, including the alleged shooter, arrested in the murder of NCP leader Baba Siddique in October 2024.
Fifteen of the 27 were produced physically before the special court in Mumbai from the Mumbai Central prison and Kalyan jail, while the remaining lodged in Thane were produced via the videoconference facility. All of them pleaded not guilty.
On October 12, 2024, Siddique was shot dead while leaving the office of his son, former MLA Zeeshan, in Bandra (east). The Mumbai police arrested 27 persons in connection with the case, while naming gangster Anmol Bishnoi, who was brought to India from the US in November 2025, was named a wanted accused in the case.
Police had claimed that the shooting was carried out on instructions of Bishnoi for Siddique’s close association with actor Salman Khan and to establish supremacy of the gang as an organised crime syndicate for pecuniary benefits.
The accused will face charges under relevant charges of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act and sections pertaining to murder, criminal conspiracy of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and sections of the Arms Act. Most of the accused in the case are under 30 years of age. Of the 27, only one is out on bail-22-year-old Akashdeep Karaj Singh, was granted bail by the Bombay High Court on Monday.
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