The Mumbai police arrested one more person in connection with the brutal murder of NCP (AP) leader and three-time former MLA Baba Ziauddin Siddique in Mumbai on October 12, taking the total number of arrests made in the sensational crime to four.
Identifying the newly arrested person as Harishkumar Balakram (23), the police said that he was arrested from Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh. Balakram works as a scrap dealer in Pune. He had absconded after the murder of Baba Siddique on Sunday night.
The three persons arrested earlier are in police custody. The police will seek the formal custody of Balakram, the fourth arrested person, from a court.
In addition, the police have detained two persons --Gullu and Monu –from Pune for questioning.-
It may be recalled that Baba Siddique was shot dead by three miscreants outside his MLA-son Zeeshan B. Siddique’s office in Nirmal Nagar in Bandra (East) in north-west Mumbai on Saturday night.
A former minister, 66-year-old Baba Siddique --- who had initially been with the Congress for more than three and a half decades before joining to the Ajit Pawar-led NCP in February this year for some reasons – had suffered three bullet wounds – two in his chest and one in his abdomen – after seven rounds of fire were opened at him by the miscreants. He succumbed to bullet wounds late at the nearby Lilavati Hospital.
