LUCKNOW: Adorned in a gray checkered shirt and blue denim denims, posing alongside a glossy black TVS Raider motorbike, the Instagram publish seems innocuous at first look, till one scrutinizes the caption…’Yaar tera gangster hai jaani’. Exactly 80 days earlier than allegedly assassinating NCP chief and three-time MLA Baba Siddique, one of many three accused,Shivkumar Gautam, had been flaunting his self-proclaimed ‘Gangster’ standing on varied social media platforms.
At the moment evading authorities, the accused hails from Gandara village within the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh.
DCP Mumbai Crime Department Datta Nalawade introduced on Sunday that the three accused, Gurmail Baljit Singh, Dharmaraj Rajesh Kashyap, and Shivkumar Gautam, had conspired to initially incapacitate the sufferer with pepper spray earlier than opening fireplace, however Shivkumar discharged his weapon prematurely.
With 229 followers, and following 49 accounts, together with union minister Chirag Paswan, PM Narendra Modi, and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, the accused had made 33 posts, ceaselessly depicting himself as a gangster.
In a single occasion, he used a voice-over from the 2010 neo-noir crime thriller ‘As soon as Upon a Time in Mumbaai’, stating, “…Yeh umar sudhar ne ke nahi, bigadne ki hain…muskil toh yeh hain ki mein abhi theek tarah se bigada bhi nahi.” (This isn’t the age to enhance, however for getting spoiled… The issue is that I have not even managed to get spoiled correctly but.)
In one other publish, whereas capturing an city panorama, he used a voice-over from KGF Chapter 2, which proclaims, “Energy individuals make locations highly effective”. In yet one more publish, he openly referred to himself as a villain, accompanied by a Bhojpuri track voice-over…” Neta na kono vidhayak, majnu hamar khalnayak hai.”
In accordance with his mom Suman, “Round April 2, 2024, Shivkumar had departed for Pune to work at a scrap yard; nonetheless, the accused’s Instagram publish from April 10 revealed that he was employed at a warehouse the place he packed and shipped on-line orders.”
