MUMBAI: The Mumbai crime branch, probing the murder case of former minister Baba Siddique, on Saturday invoked the stringent law, the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOC Act), in the case.
So far, 26 accused, including three shooters, were arrested.
Siddique was shot dead on the night of October 12 outside his MLA son Zeeshan Siddique's Bandra (East) office.
Three accused—Shubham Rameshwar Lonkar, Zeeshan Mohammad Akhtar, and Anmol Bishnoi—are still wanted in the case. Anmol is the brother of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.
Anmol was detained in the USA around 10 days ago.
Soon after the firing, police nabbed two shooters, while one of them managed to flee and was arrested after a month. Till now, investigators seized five weapons, including Turkish and Australian-made pistols, and 64 bullets from the accused.
The motive behind the murder is still not known. The alleged conspiracy was hatched between the accused belonging to Punjab, UP, and Pune.
Mateen Hafeez, special correspondent at The Times of India in Mum...
Read MoreMateen Hafeez, special correspondent at The Times of India in Mumbai, reports on terrorism, underworld, cybercrime and organized crime syndicates. He also writes about the jails in Maharashtra and focuses on human interest stories. He has covered the Ghatkopar bomb blast, Vile Parle bomb blast, Mulund train blast, train serial blasts in 2006, 26/11 terror attacks and Pune's German Bakery bomb blast. He has a special interest in Urdu fiction written by Ibn-e-Safi.
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