police also surprised by the photo found from the mobile of the shooters who killed baba siddiqu

A week after NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddiqui was shot dead outside Zeeshan Siddiqui’s office, Mumbai Police found a photo of his son on the accused’s phone. Police said the mastermind of the case used the social media application Snapchat to share Zeeshan’s image with the shooters, further adding that the shooters and the conspirators used the application to communicate. Baba Siddiqui was shot dead outside his son’s office when he was bursting crackers on the occasion of Dussehra. Of the three shooters, Gurmail Singh and Dharamraj Kashyap have been arrested, while Shivkumar Gautam is currently absconding. The fourth suspect, Harish Kumar Balkaram Nisad, was arrested in Uttar Pradesh on Monday and brought to Mumbai.

The three shooters accused of killing former Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Baba Siddiqui had learned to use firearms by watching tutorial videos on YouTube while living in a rented house in Mumbai’s Kurla area, reports said. The accused spent about four weeks watching such videos and communicating through Instagram and Snapchat to avoid detection. Both applications have a feature that automatically deletes most messages after they have been viewed or expired.

Lawrence Bishnoi gang has taken responsibility for the murder of Baba Siddiqui. A Facebook post by a gang member, which quickly went viral, said the gang targeted Siddiqui because of his close ties to Bollywood actor Salman Khan and alleged links to underworld figures like Dawood Ibrahim. Salman Khan has faced several threats from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang over the years, with the most recent incident occurring in April this year, when two bike-riding men opened fire outside his Mumbai residence.