Baba Siddique murder: Plea to secure Anmol Bishnoi custody
MUMBAI, July 4 -- Shehzeen Ziauddin Siddique, the widow of slain Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former minister Baba Siddique, on Friday moved a special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court seeking directions to the Mumbai police crime branch to secure the custody of alleged gangster Anmol Bishnoi.
Though the charge-sheet filed by Mumbai police itself identified Anmol as the "wanted main accused" in the Baba Siddique murder case, the crime branch had failed to bring him before the trial court despite having the opportunity since November 2025, when the alleged gangster was deported from the United States and arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Shehzeen Siddique said in her plea.
The application, filed before Special Judge Satyanarayan R Navander through advocates Trivankumar Karnani and Pradip Gharat, accused the crime branch of "lethargy and dereliction of duty", and sought an explanation from the agency for not moving the trial court to obtain Anmol's custody. Delaying the alleged gangster's production would result in "duplication of the process of leading the evidence in the court and the multiplicity of proceedings", besides wasting judicial time, the plea said.
The court directed the state to file its reply to the plea and posted the matter for further hearing on July 10.
Anmol Bishnoi was deported from the US to India in November 2025 and arrested by the NIA in a separate case.
Last month, Anmol moved the same court expressing his willingness to surrender in the case of firing at actor Salman Khan's residence....
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