The widow of former Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Baba Siddique, who was shot dead in October last year, has moved the Bombay High Court seeking a court-monitored probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) or an independent agency.

In her petition, Shezeen Siddique has alleged that the investigation conducted by Nirmal Nagar police station in Bandra (East) was “misleading”, left “half-way” and “later abandoned to save the persons involved in the murder.” She has also sought a direction to the police to place on record the current status of the probe. The HC is expected to hear the plea next week.

Siddique was shot dead by three assailants outside his son Zeeshan’s office in Bandra (East) on October 12 last year.

Filed through advocate Trivankumar Karnani, the petition states that

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