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Baba Siddique only had non-categorised security and three policemen had been assigned to him for his protection, the Mumbai Police said on Sunday, a day after the former Maharashtra minister was shot dead outside the office of his son, MLA Zeeshan Siddique, in Bandra East.  Addressing a press conference, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Datta Nalawade also said one of the police personnel was with Siddique, who is a member of the Ajit Pawar faction of the NCP, when he was shot around 9.30 pm on Saturday. “A case was registered and the investigation was handed over to the Crime Branch. After the firing, police personnel at the spot showed courage and arrested two… Read More »Baba Siddique Only Had Non-Categorised Security: Mumbai Police

<p>A court in Mumbai on Sunday remanded one of the two accused, arrested for the murder of former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique, to police custody until October 21. The court also directed a bone ossification test for the second accused Dharamraj Kashyap after he claimed to be a minor. Based on the results of the test, the court will decide whether the proceedings against him will continue in a juvenile court or a regular court.</p> <p>The court has directed the police to conduct the ossification test, which estimates a person’s age by analysing the fusion of bones.&nbsp;</p> <p>The police produced the alleged assailants, identified as Gurmail Baljit Singh (23) from Haryana, and Dharamraj Kashyap, a… Read More »Baba Siddique Murder Case: One Accused Claims To Be Minor, Mumbai Court Orders Bone Test To Confirm Age

SpaceX successfully “caught” the first-stage booster of its Starship megarocket Sunday as it returned to the launch pad after a test flight, a world first in the company’s quest for rapid reusability. The “super heavy booster” had blasted off attached to the Starship rocket minutes earlier, then made a picture-perfect controlled return to the same pad in Texas, where a pair of huge mechanical “chopsticks” reached out from the launch tower to bring the slowly descending booster to a halt, according to a livestream from Elon Musk’s SpaceX company. “Folks, this is a day for the engineering history books,” a SpaceX spokesperson said in a voiceover on the company’s livestream, after the booster was safely… Read More »Watch: In a First, SpaceX Successfully Catches Giant Starship Booster

A car that had caught fire was seen rolling down a road in Jaipur on Saturday afternoon, triggering panic among locals. Visuals showed commuters trying to dodge the burning car as it continued moving down the elevated stretch. The car’s owner was identified as Mukesh Goswami from Alwar, but it was being driven by his friend Jitendra Jangid.  Mr Jangid noticed smoke coming from the car’s bonnet and pulled over. After he exited the car, it went up in flames and started rolling down the road.  The car’s handbrake had failed after it caught fire, and the driver had jumped out.  Soon, a team of firefighters was rushed to the scene.  Fire Officer Dinesh Kumar… Read More »Video: Burning Car On Jaipur Road Sparks Panic Among Commuters

Baba Siddique only had non-categorised security and three policemen had been assigned to him for his protection, the Mumbai Police said on Sunday, a day after the former Maharashtra minister was shot dead outside the office of his son, MLA Zeeshan Siddique, in Bandra East.  Addressing a press conference, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Datta Nalawade also said one of the police personnel was with Siddique, who is a member of the Ajit Pawar faction of the NCP, when he was shot around 9.30 pm on Saturday. “A case was registered and the investigation was handed over to the Crime Branch. After the firing, police personnel at the spot showed courage and arrested two… Read More »Baba Siddique Only Had Non-Categorised Security: Mumbai Police