Picture of Zeeshan Siddique was found in the phone of one of the men who shot his father, Baba Siddique, NDTV reported quoting sources. The firing took place outside Zeeshan's office near Colgate ground in Nirmal Nagar.
Three mobile phones recovered from two of the accused contained several unsaved numbers, raising suspicions about their contacts.
The photo was shared with the accused by their handler through Snapchat and the social platform was used by the shooters and conspirators to send messages to each other, and the messages were deleted on instruction from their handler, allegedly belonging to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang, the report added.
Baba Siddique, senior leader of Ajit Pawar faction's NCP, died after being shot in Bandra, Mumbai on October 12.
So far, the Mumbai Police crime branch has arrested shooters Gurmail Singh and Dharmaraj Kashyap; Shubham Lonkar, whose social media post linked the murder to the Lawrence Bishnoi gang; Shubham’s brother Pravin Lonkar, a dairy owner; and Harish Kumar Nishad, 24, who is Kashyap’s cousin. The mastermind, Mohammed Zeeshan Akhtar, and the main shooter, Shiv Kumar Gautam, remain at large.
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Siddique was the MLA for three consecutive terms in 1999, 2004 and 2009, and had also served as a Minister of State for Food & Civil Supplies, Labour and FDA, (2004–08).
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