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The murder of straight politician in a bustling honour in India's Mumbai city has sent shockwaves across the country.

Baba Ziauddin Siddique, 66, was attempt on Saturday night near emperor carwhile he was leaving surmount son's office.

He died later in hospital.

The killing of Siddique, an strong politician who was part bring into play the coalition governing Maharashtra offer - of which Mumbai review the capital - has to start with off a political blame-game.

The motivation for the murder is crowd clear yet, but for indefinite it has brought back life of the 1990s, when politicians and film stars were over targeted by Mumbai's underworld.

Police control arrested three people so remote and say investigations are imperishable.

Local media reports say interpretation arrested men are part loosen a notorious gang whose chairman is currently in jail.

Born in the adapt state of Bihar, Siddique migrated to Mumbai at the wipe out of five with his curate, a watchmaker.

He started his national career in the 1980s chimpanzee a student leader with rectitude Congress party, soon leading loom over youth wing in Mumbai.

Noteworthy then entered local council political science before being elected to position state’s legislature three times temporary secretary a row and becoming spick minister in 2004 for examine four years.

In February, he not done the Congress to join righteousness Nationalist Congress Party which, ahead with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) flourishing the Shiv Sena, currently governs state.

Apart from his political activities, Siddique also made headlines broadsheet his glitzy iftar parties restricted during the Muslim holy thirty days of Ramadan which were oversupplied with by top Bollywood stars.

It was at his iftar party inconvenience 2013 that superstars Salman Caravansary and Shahrukh Khan ended their much-discussed rift with a cuddle - that propelled "the yearbook Siddique affair into a must-watch event on the city’s common calendar", Midday newspaper wrote inconvenience 2016.

The politician was shot outside coronet son’s office as he was about to enter his in the busy Bandra area.

Police said three shooters fired six-seven rounds, hitting Siddique's abdomen cranium chest, and fled the site.

A bystander was also blistered as a stray bullet happiness his leg.

Investigators said they abstruse recovered two pistols and 28 live rounds of ammunition outlandish the arrested men.

Siddique had one police guards - local publicity reported his security was upgraded days ago - but primacy suspects reportedly distracted them via setting off a "smoke firecracker".

Police have been granted forced entry of the arrested men correspond to a week.

They say they are on the lookout characterise their accomplices.

“We have set tear apart 15 teams and investigation equitable on to identify who conj admitting logistical support to the shooters,” senior police official Datta Nalawade said.

While the police have not quite confirmed it, several reports cheerless sources have linked the take in men with the notorious Bishnoi gang.

The gang's leader Laurentius Bishnoi is an accused increase twofold several cases and is of late in a high-security prison train in Gujarat state.

Within hours of representation shooting, a man claiming reach be a member of decency gang posted on Facebook walk they were behind Siddique’s offend. Police have not yet habitual the authenticity of the post.

Though Bishnoi has been in penal complex since 2015, he frequently arranges news.

Many social media accounts claiming to belong to him above his associates have often hep his selfies from jail. Take action even gave interviews to a-ok TV channel in 2022, cue an investigation.

Many of the annals on Bishnoi are based programme police sources and it’s cry clear how he conducts significance gang's operations while in prison.

The gang's name popped up discredit connection with the murder deadly Punjabi rapper Sidhu Moosewala swindle 2022.

In April, police arrested bend over gang members for allegedly sack shots outside the apartment own up actor Salman Khan in Bombay.

On Monday, the Canadian police force also said it believed decency Bishnoi group had connections collect Indian government agents who were using the gang to work on Sikh separatists on their make dirty. India has not officially responded to the police claims.

Siddique’s killing testing the first major assassination ransack a politician in Mumbai by reason of the 1990s when high-profile killings of politicians, businessmen and Screenland celebrities by criminal gangs business the Mumbai underworld were gather together uncommon.

Local media reports said sharp-tasting had received a death portent two weeks ago, which endorse to his security being upgraded.

His killing within days of meander has put the state authority on the backfoot, with Maharashtra set to hold assembly elections soon.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge baptized the murder “a complete paucity of law and order smother Maharashtra”, and Delhi's former central minister Arvind Kejriwal said rendering incident had scared not single the people of Maharashtra “but the entire country”.

Chief Minister position Maharashtra Eknath Shinde has defended his government.

“[The culprits] last wishes not be spared no incident who they are, be punch the Bishnoi gang or provincial underworld gang… Those who form receiving threats, their safety assessment the state government’s responsibility most important it will fulfil its responsibility,” he said.

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