<p>Mumbai: A court here on Sunday remanded one of the two accused arrested for allegedly shooting dead former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique to police custody till October 21.</p><p>The court directed the police to conduct a bone ossification test to determine the age of the second accused after he claimed to be a minor.</p><p>Police were directed to produce the second accused again after conducting the test. The court will then decide if proceedings against him will be conducted at a juvenile court or the regular court.</p>.Social media post seeks to link Bishnoi gang to Baba Siddique's murder; cops verifying claim.<p>Police produced the alleged assailants, identified as Haryana residence Gurmail Baljit Singh (23) and another man, a Uttar Pradesh native, in the court on Sunday afternoon.</p><p>A former Congress veteran Siddique (66), who had joined the Ajit Pawar-led NCP earlier this year, was waylaid by three men at Kher Nagar in Mumbai's Bandra area just outside his MLA son Zeeshan Siddique's office and shot at.</p><p>He was taken to the Lilavati Hospital where he was declared dead, police said.</p><p>The crime branch, probing the case, sought the remand of the accused duo for 14 days, saying they needed to investigate if there was any international link involved.</p>.Baba Siddique murder: When did shooters come to Mumbai, who supplied weapons? Details here.<p>"The person killed was not any ordinary person, but a former minister. Despite security, the assailants managed to shoot him. We need to find out the intention and motive behind the crime," the prosecution said.</p><p>Police need to probe if any political rivalry was involved in the shooting, public prosecutor Gautam Gaikwad told the court.</p><p>Advocate Sidharth Agarwal, appearing for both the accused, contended that the crime was " very sad and disheartening", but the role of the accused is not established.</p><p>He (Siddique) might have been killed due to a political rivalry and the two accused were falsely implicated in the case, the lawyer argued.</p>
<p>Mumbai: A court here on Sunday remanded one of the two accused arrested for allegedly shooting dead former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique to police custody till October 21.</p><p>The court directed the police to conduct a bone ossification test to determine the age of the second accused after he claimed to be a minor.</p><p>Police were directed to produce the second accused again after conducting the test. The court will then decide if proceedings against him will be conducted at a juvenile court or the regular court.</p>.Social media post seeks to link Bishnoi gang to Baba Siddique's murder; cops verifying claim.<p>Police produced the alleged assailants, identified as Haryana residence Gurmail Baljit Singh (23) and another man, a Uttar Pradesh native, in the court on Sunday afternoon.</p><p>A former Congress veteran Siddique (66), who had joined the Ajit Pawar-led NCP earlier this year, was waylaid by three men at Kher Nagar in Mumbai's Bandra area just outside his MLA son Zeeshan Siddique's office and shot at.</p><p>He was taken to the Lilavati Hospital where he was declared dead, police said.</p><p>The crime branch, probing the case, sought the remand of the accused duo for 14 days, saying they needed to investigate if there was any international link involved.</p>.Baba Siddique murder: When did shooters come to Mumbai, who supplied weapons? Details here.<p>"The person killed was not any ordinary person, but a former minister. Despite security, the assailants managed to shoot him. We need to find out the intention and motive behind the crime," the prosecution said.</p><p>Police need to probe if any political rivalry was involved in the shooting, public prosecutor Gautam Gaikwad told the court.</p><p>Advocate Sidharth Agarwal, appearing for both the accused, contended that the crime was " very sad and disheartening", but the role of the accused is not established.</p><p>He (Siddique) might have been killed due to a political rivalry and the two accused were falsely implicated in the case, the lawyer argued.</p>