Mumbai News LIVE Updates: HC asks Maharashtra govt to decide on Zeeshan Siddique`s plea for higher security

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Security cover was cut after threat review, Siddique family tells HC

However, the same was reduced after a threat perception review was carried out by the concerned authorities. On Tuesday, a bench of Justices A S Gadkari and R R Bhonsale was informed by the family`s lawyer Pradip Gharat that Zeeshan had in November this year submitted a representation to the concerned committee seeking higher security cover.

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Shehzaan Siddique tells HC he sought police protection weeks before murder

Shehzeen, in her plea, said her husband had repeatedly raised security concerns and sought restoration of police protection weeks before his murder. After Siddique`s murder, Zeeshan was provided with police security after he filed an application for the same.

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Baba Siddique`s widow moves HC seeking transfer of probe to independent agency

Baba Siddique`s widow Shehzeen had filed a petition in HC seeking transfer of the investigation into her husband`s murder to an "independent and impartial agency". Baba Siddique was shot dead by three assailants outside son Zeeshan`s office in Bandra on the night of October 12, 2024.

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: HC asks Maharashtra govt to decide on Zeeshan Siddique`s plea for higher security
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the Maharashtra government to decide on a representation submitted by former MLA Zeeshan Siddique seeking higher security cover in the wake of getting extortion calls since August this year. Zeeshan Siddique, son of late NCP leader and former MLA Baba Siddique who was killed in October last year, had claimed that his security cover was reduced from the Y+ category earlier this year. (PTI)