India, Dec. 17 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the state government to decide within 10 days on former Bandra MLA Zeeshan Siddique's request for restoring his police security. Zeeshan, a leader of the Nationalist Congress Party and the son of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique who was shot dead in October last year, claimed his security was reduced soon after his mother, Shehzeen Siddique, approached the high court seeking an independent, court-monitored probe into her husband's murder.

A division bench of justices AS Gadkari and Ranjitsinha Raja Bhonsale was hearing a petition filed by Shehzeen Siddique, who has challenged the police chargesheet in the murder case. She described the investigation as a "mockery of jus...