Mumbai Police has filed its 4590-page charge sheet regarding the murder of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddiqui. The police have made many shocking revelations in their charge sheet. According to the charge sheet, on the night of 12 October 2024, Gurmel Singh, Dharamraj Kashyap, and Shivkumar Gautam opened fire on Baba Siddiqui and tried to escape from there. Later Gurmel Singh and Dharamraj Kashyap were caught while their associate Shivkumar Gautam managed to escape. However, Shivkumar Gautam was arrested after a few days from Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh. According to the police, accused Shivkumar was planning to escape to Nepal.
Reiki was done for two months
Police have stated in their charge sheet that the accused had done recce of Baba Siddiqui for two months before carrying out this murder. Police investigation revealed that before firing on Baba Siddiqui, the three shooters had come to Baba Siddiqui’s house 3 to 4 times and had also conducted recce of his office. While doing recce, these accused used to keep a bag with them which contained a pistol and live bullets. He wanted to attack Baba Siddiqui as soon as he got a chance.
If there had been failure on October 12, the accused would have abandoned this plan.
According to police sources, it has also been revealed during the interrogation of the accused that if the accused had not been able to kill Baba Siddiqui on 12th October, then the accused would have abandoned the plan to kill Baba Siddiqui. But this did not happen. The accused have told the police that they were disappointed after doing Reiki of Baba Siddiqui for so many days. If he did not get a chance to attack Baba Siddiqui that day, he was going to drop this plan.
Were going to use pepper spray to escape from the police
It has been claimed in the police charge sheet that the accused had kept pepper spray with them so that they could avoid being caught by the police after committing this incident. Their plan was that if anyone tried to catch them, they would try to escape from the spot by spraying pepper in their eyes. The accused had spent Rs 12 to 13 thousand on the pepper spray. Gurmail Singh, who attacked Baba Siddiqui, had even used pepper spray on the police.
Weapons training was given in Jharkhand
According to sources, it has been claimed in the charge sheet of Mumbai Police that before the murder of Baba Siddiqui, the accused were taken to Jharkhand and given training in using weapons. It has been said in the charge sheet that AK 47 was given to the accused. And he had learned to aim from this. According to the police, the three accused had left Pune on July 28 by Pune-Hatiya Express train and reached Hatia station in Jharkhand the next day on July 29. They all went for about 25-30 kilometers from the station, after which their mobile phones and other electronic items were kept there. At that place, he was blindfolded and he was taken by car for about two to two and a half hours and then he was blindfolded.
After this, he was made to practice firing, after which he was blindfolded and was driven to the same place for two to two and a half hours. Where their mobile phones and other electronic gadgets were kept. They were returned their belongings and were then taken to the station 25-30 kilometers away from there. The place where firing practice was done for all of them was considered to be Naxal affected, hence the shooters of Lawrence Bishnoi gang also had connections with Naxalites. It is being verified.
this is how the game opened
Two accused, Rupesh Mohol and Gaurav Apune, arrested from Pune for their involvement in the conspiracy to murder Baba Siddiqui, along with absconding accused Shubham Lonkar, had made complete preparations for the murder of the former police officer’s son, but the Crime Branch Before that, he was arrested in the Baba’s murder case. According to Crime Branch sources, the accused wanted to kill Mohol and his former officer’s son because they suspected that in September 2024, He was involved in the conspiracy to murder his close friend Jaideep Dnyaneshwar Bhondkar in Uttam Nagar area of ​​Pune. He had helped the arrested accused Amit Sudam Gurjar in the same conspiracy.
After this revelation, Mumbai Crime Branch has shared this input with Uttam Nagar Police of Pune, so that security can be provided. This revelation has been mentioned in the charge sheet filed by the Crime Branch. According to Mumbai Crime Branch sources, Jaideep Bhondkar was murdered by the accused Gurjar in September 2024 by attacking him with a baton. Both knew each other and Gurjar had killed Bhondkar due to a dispute that broke out while joking with each other. The accused Gurjar had called Bhondkar outside his house on the pretext of helping his friend and murdered him. . After this incident, Bhondkar’s friends Mohol and Apune felt that the former police officer’s son had not only helped the accused but had also played an important role in hatching the conspiracy.
confess your crime
According to Crime Branch sources, in the statement recorded in the case of Baba’s murder, both the accused have also confessed to planning to murder the former police officer’s son. He has told in his statement that he had obtained weapons with the help of Shubham and was also going to kill the former officer’s son with the same weapon. During the investigation, the Crime Branch recovered two weapons and several rounds of bullets from both the accused. Was recovered, which was to be used to commit murder. Both the accused have also said in their statement that before committing the murder, they and their gang associates had practiced firing weapons near Khadakwasla Dam.
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