The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Maharashtra Government to reply to a plea filed by the widow of former minister and NCP leader Baba Siddique, who was shot dead last year, seeking a court-monitored probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) or an independent agency.

The court questioned the investigation officer why the police did not record the statement of the widow, Shehzeen Siddique. She has claimed that the investigation by the Bandra police was misleading, left “half-way” and “later abandoned” to save people involved in her husband’s murder.

Siddique, a former state minister and MLA, was shot dead by three assailants outside his son and then MLA Zeeshan’s office in Bandra (East) on October 12 last year.

A division bench of Justices Ajey S Gadkari and Ranjitsinha R Bh

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