Two of the 26 accused arrested within the Baba Siddique homicide case have advised the court docket that they need to retract their confession assertion as they had been ‘involuntarily’ recorded by the Mumbai Police.
An utility was filed on their behalf by their lawyer who stated that they had already apprehended that the police will document their confession assertion by pressure, coercion or undue affect and therefore had expressed the identical in the course of the first remand on December 3.
The 2 accused, of their purposes, stated they wished to retract from the confession and claimed that the investigation authority had recorded their statements to implicate them as there isn’t any proof. Final month, the Mumbai police invoked expenses beneath the Maharashtra Management of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) and accordingly took custody of a few of the accused. Underneath MCOCA, confessional statements may be recorded by cops of a sure rank.
On Monday, the police sought manufacturing of 5 extra accused, who’re presently in judicial custody for additional probe. The remaining are in judicial custody until December 30.
Siddique was killed at Bandra in Mumbai on October 12. Police claims that the crime was the handiwork of wished accused Anmol Bishnoi, whose gang members had been a part of the conspiracy and execution of the offence.
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