India, Oct. 21 -- The Mumbai police have cited legal constraints to explain why they have been unable to secure physical custody of gangster Anmol Bishnoi in the Baba Siddique murder case but a special MCOCA court's findings raise an uncomfortable question: Did investigators exhaust all legal avenues available to them, or stop at the one route they knew was blocked?

Despite being directed to explore video-conferencing to secure the presence of Anmol, brother of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, police sought his physical production from Tihar Jail - a request rejected because a central government order restricted his removal.

Anmol, also wanted for the firing outside actor Salman Khan's Bandra residence, has been named by investigators as the ...