The Bombay police on October 29 arrested a 20-year-old man from NOIDA for allegedly making a call and sending messages to MLA Zeeshan Siddique’s office helpline at Bandra East in Bombay, claiming that he had overheard people talking about their plan to kill him and actor Salman Khan. The police traced the accused, Mohammad Tayyab alias Gurfan Khan, through his cell phone and brought him to Bombay on transit remand. They said, he had no links to any criminal organisation.
Tayyab told the police, he did odd jobs for a living and was in a financial crisis. He added, he had assumed that he would be rewarded for providing the ‘death threat’ information and to give more details. Siddique’s staff received the call and messages on October 25 around 9.30 p.m. and informed the Bombay crime branch as his father, politician Baba Siddique, was shot dead outside the office on October 12. A complaint was filed by Zeeshan the following day at the Nirmal Nagar police station.
Meanwhile, Shaikh Hussain Shaikh Mousin, a vegetable vendor from Jamshedpur, was arrested for allegedly sending threat messages to the Bombay traffic police’s WhatsApp helpline on October 17, demanding Rs. 5 crore. The message included a threat that actor Salman Khan’s “condition will be worse than Baba Siddique” if the demand wasn’t met.
