Mumbai,

13 Oct (HS): Devendra Fadnavis, Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister, claimed on

Sunday that police had identified some leads in the assassination of NCP

politician and former state minister Baba Siddique.

Different aspects of the

crime were being investigated, but police will speak about it later, Fadnavis,

who is in charge of the state home department, told reporters in Gondia

district.

Siddique (66), who joined Ajit Pawar's NCP in February after leaving the

Congress, was killed by three men in Kher Nagar in Mumbai's Bandra region on

Saturday night, close outside his son's office. He was brought to Lilavati Hospital

and proclaimed dead.“Everyone of us has

been horrified by this awful and tragic event. Baba Siddique was extremely close

to me; we'd worked together,” he added.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi