Late NCP leader Baba Siddique Photo: PTI Late NCP leader Baba Siddique Photo: PTI 
The stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime (MCOC) Act in the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has been invoked by the Mumbai Police in politician Baba Siddique's murder caseprimo gaming, said Mumbai police.
The 66-year-old veteran politician was shot dead on October 12 by three assailants outside his son MLA Zeeshan Siddique's office building in Mumbai's Bandra East. The murder plan was orchestrated by jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi's brother Anmol.
Siddique sustained two bullet injuries on his chest and was rushed to the Lilavati hospital in Mumbai, where he passed away.
So far 26 people have been arrested by the crime branch including the alleged main shooter Shiv Kumar Gautam.
About MCOCAThe Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (MCOCA), is defined an act that enables "to make special provisions for prevention and control of, and for coping with, criminal activity by organized crime syndicate or gang, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto”.
The confessions made to made to the police under the provisions of MCOCA are admissible as evidence in court. Besides, securing bail under MCOCA is comparatively difficult.
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According to the act, if any person commits an offense of organized crime resulting in any person's death, then the accused shall be punishable with death or imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to a fine.
Otherwise, the accused can be punished with imprisonment for a term of five years at least which may extend to life imprisonment, and shall also be liable to a fine.
Baba Siddique murder: Investigation so farAnmol Bishnoiwas arrested in the US for his alleged role in the murder of Siddique and firing outside actor Salman Khan’s Mumbai home while the other suspected key conspirators Shubham Lonkar and Zishan Mohammad Akhtar are still at large.
Investigation so far has also led to the identification of the prime suspect as Akashdeep Gill. Police arrested him from Punjab's Fazilka.
Gill reportedly played the role of the logistics coordinator in He used a labourer's mobile internet hotspot to communicate with the key conspirators.
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One of the accused and shooter in Siddique's murder case, Shiva Kumar, along with four other accused was sent to police custody by a local court on November 12.
Kumar and the other four accused were arrested by a joint team of Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) and the Mumbai Crime Branch from the Nanpara area of UP's Bahraich on November 10.primo gaming