JUDGMENT:-

1. By this Application, the Applicant seeks his enlargement on bail in connection with C.R. No. 589 of 2024 dated 13th October 2024 registered with the Nirmalnagar Police Station, Brihanmumbai City, for the offences punishable under Sections 103 (1), 109, 125 and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ' BNS ') and Section 3 , 5, 25 and 27 of the Arms Act, 1959 and Sections 37 and 135 of the Maharashtra Police Act, 1951 . Thereafter, the provisions of (1)(i)(ii), 3(2), 3(3), 3(4) of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act, 1999 (for short ‘MCOCA’) were added.

2. The offence relates to the murder of one Ziauddin Abdul Rahim Siddiqui @ Baba Siddiqui, former Minister in the State of Maharashtra.

3. The facts as discerned from the FIR are as follows:

i) The First Informant is a police constable attached to the Special Protection Unit of the Mumbai Police, entrusted with the personal security protection of one Ziauddin Abdul Rahim Siddiqui @ Baba Siddiqui, a former Minister, State of Maharashtra. There were other police officials deputed as bodyguards to provide security to Baba Siddiqui.

ii) On 12th October 2024, while the First Informant was on security