‘Used Labourer’s Mobile Hotspot’: How Baba Siddique Murder Suspect Communicated With Conspirators

Akashdeep Gill, who was arrested from Punjab’s Fazilka for his involvement in Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Baba Siddique’s murder case, has revealed he communicated.

With key conspirators using a labourer’s mobile hotspot, allowing him to appear offline and avoid tracking. The revelation came as Akashdeep was being interrogated by a team of the Mumbai Police’s crime branch in connection with the case.

The labourer whose hotspot was used by Akashdeep was identified as Balwinder. The crime branch further said it was searching for Akashdeep’s mobile phone, which could hold crucial evidence in the case.

Gill has been identified as a crucial logistical coordinator for Baba Siddique’s murder plot, orchestrated by gangster Anmol Bishnoi, it said. Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique was shot dead on October 12 by three assailants outside his son MLA Zeeshan Siddique’s office building in Mumbai’s Bandra East area.

He sustained two bullet injuries on his chest and was rushed to the Lilavati hospital in Mumbai, where he passed away. On November 17, the Mumbai Crime Branch arrested a Gujarat resident from Akola in Maharashtra in the case, taking the number of people held in the sensational incident to 25, news agency PTI reported.

Salmanbhai Iqbalbhai Vohra, a resident of Petlad in Gujarat’s Anand district, was held from Balapur in Akola, some 565 kilometres from the metropolis, with the help of the police there. Gurmail Singh from Haryana and Uttar Pradesh resident Dharmaraj Kashyap were held immediately after the murder.

Recently, the police also got a major breakthrough in the case when it arrested alleged main shooter Shivkumar Gautam from Bahraich in Uttar Pradesh. Gautam, who was on the run since October 12, was held while trying to flee to Nepal, as per police.