Thane corporator conspired RTI activist’s homicide: Uttar Pradesh STF

The Uttar Pradesh Particular Process Power (STF) has named Thane Municipal Company corporator from the Nationalist Congress Party Najeeb Mulla as a conspirator within the homicide of Maharashtra Navnriman Sena chief and RTI activist Jameel Shaikh.

Shaikh was once shot lifeless via two bike-borne males in Thane in November ultimate 12 months. Even if the STF had named Mulla, the Thane Police, which can be investigating the case, refused to recognize his position within the homicide.

The STF, throughout an operation performed along side the Thane Crime Department on Saturday, arrested one Irfan Sonu Sheikh Mansuri, accused of being one of the vital shooters. The UP STF in a press unencumber has claimed that Mansuri had performed the assault on the behest of Mulla.

Deputy Commissioner of Thane Police Laxmikant Patil, then again, refused to substantiate whether or not Mulla is concerned within the case. He mentioned, “Mansuri is in UP. He’ll be delivered to Thane. We will be able to plan our long run plan of action after interrogating him.”

Shaikh was once murdered on November 23, 2020, when he was once returning house from a mosque in Rabodi, Thane. He was once driving his motorcycle when the assailants shot him and fled the spot. Shaikh, who’s the MNS president of the Rabodi ward, was once rushed to an area clinic the place he was once declared introduced lifeless.

A case of homicide was once registered. Right through the investigation, the Thane Crime Department learnt concerning the position of 1 Shahid Shaikh. Shahid was once driving the motorcycle, the police mentioned. He was once picked up from his space in Rabodi and positioned beneath arrest.

“Shahid mentioned two sharp shooters had been introduced from UP to kill the MNS chief,” mentioned an investigator.

The crime department officers, who knew their names, gained details about Mansuri’s arrival at Kathota Jheel in Lucknow, UP. A staff was once in an instant dispatched to UP. The staff, with the assistance of the UP STF, laid a lure across the junction. “Once Mansuri arrived, he was once nabbed,” an officer mentioned.

Mansuri advised the police that he was once paid Rs 2 lakh to kill Shaikh. He was once contacted via one Osama, who had given him the money. Mansuri alleged that the killing had taken position on the behest of Mulla.

“Shahid was once given the accountability of figuring out Shaikh for Mansuri. He was once driving the motorcycle. He was once arrested on November 27. Shahid had additionally helped them (Mansuri and Osama) get away,” an investigator added.

The accused was once produced in an area courtroom in UP on Saturday that granted the Thane Crime Department his transit remand. The staff is anticipated to succeed in Thane on Sunday.

Mulla didn’t reply to calls and messages via this correspondent. He was once up to now arrested in an abetment to suicide case after a builder from Thane, specifically Suraj Parmar, had shot himself in October 2015. Parmar had left a suicide be aware during which he had accused Mulla and a number of other different political party employees of harassing him for bribes.

As the scoop of Mulla’s involvement in Shaikh’s homicide began spreading, locals on Saturday night pelted stones at Mulla’s Thane place of work.