Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the investigating officer (IO) and the Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) to file their reply affidavits in response to a petition filed by Shehzeen Ziauddin Siddique, widow of late Congress leader and former MLA Baba Siddique, seeking transfer of the probe into her husband’s murder to an “independent and impartial agency.”

Siddique,66, was shot dead by three assailants outside his son Zeeshan’s office in Bandra (East) on the night of October 12, 2024.

A division bench of Justices Ajey Gadkari and RR Bhonsale issued the direction after the police claimed they had been in touch with Zeeshan Siddique. The bench, however, questioned this claim when Shehzeen’s counsel, Senior Advocate Pradeep Gharat and advocate Trivankumar Karnani, pointe

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