Mumbai: A court here on Monday remanded suspected main shooter Shivkumar Gautam and four others arrested in the NCP politician Baba Siddique’s murder case to police custody till November 19.

The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force and Mumbai Crime Branch arrested 20-year-old shooter Shivkumar and four accomplices from Nanpara in Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh, on Sunday.

Main Shooter, Four Others Sent to Police Custody Till Nov 19

The other arrested individuals—Anurag Kashyap, Gyan Prakash Tripathi, Akash Srivastava, and Akhilendra Pratap Singh—were detained for harboring Shivkumar and assisting his escape to Nepal.

The accused were presented before Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vinod Patil, and the probe agency requested their custody for further investigation, which the court granted until November 19.

Siddique, a former Maharashtra minister, was shot and killed on October 12 by three gunmen outside his son MLA Zeeshan Siddique’s office in Bandra East, Mumbai. He sustained two gunshot wounds to the chest and was rushed to Lilavati Hospital, where he later died from his injuries.

So far, the police have arrested 23 individuals in connection with the murder.

On Sunday, police revealed that Shivkumar Gautam, a resident of Gandara village in the Kaiserganj police station area of Bahraich district, was the shooter. Shivkumar had moved to Maharashtra a few years ago to work as a laborer, and in April of this year, he had invited his neighbor, Dharmaraj Kashyap, to join him for work. Shivkumar’s father, Balkrishna, is a mason and works as a daily wage laborer.