MUMBAI: The crime branch on Saturday said that the plot to murder NCP leader and former state minister Baba Siddiqui was coordinated from Canada by gangster Anmol Bishnoi, the brother of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.
Police said this came out during interrogation of two accused — Ramphool Kanjoia and Nitin Sapre. Anmol Bishnoi coordinated the attack through another accused, Sujit Sushilsingh alias Dabbu, said police. According to sources, Dabbu arranged for weapons from Rajasthan and provided financial support to the attackers. He instructed the hired shooters to conduct recee of Siddiqui’s residence and surroundings a month prior to the murder. Police claim they also recovered the fifth weapon from Sujit’s possession.
It is suspected that Anmol provided the shooters with photographs of Baba Siddique and his son, Zeeshan Siddique, via Snapchat, to execute the murder. Anmol is facing 18 criminal cases and is holed up in Canada. In April, Anmol sent a post on Facebook taking responsibility for the firing at Salman Khan’s Bandra flat. Anmol Bishnoi has been shown as absconding accused in the firing on Khan’s house as well a conspiracy to kill him at his farmhouse in Panvel, registered by Navi Mumbai police. Anmol Bishnoi had also allegedly provided weapons and logistics support to the accused who killed Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala on May 29, 2022.
Police said while Dabbu and a few others who were arrested lately were further remanded to police custody, the first three accused, Dharamraj Kashyap, Gurnail Singh and Pravin Lonkar, were remanded to judicial custody. Dabbu, who was arrested from Ludhiana on Friday, played a crucial role as a middleman, linking Anmol Bishnoi’s contract with the shooters. —
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