A 23-year-old youth was arrested from Pune on Wednesday in connection with the killing of NCP leader Baba Siddique, police said.

Gaurav Vilas Apune, a resident of Karvenagar locality in Pune city, is the 16th person arrested in the case.

A court here sent him to remand until November 9.

A Mumbai crime branch team took him into custody as interrogation of some of the arrested accused revealed that he was involved in the conspiracy to attack Siddique, a former Maharashtra minister, a police official said.

Apune had been trained in the use of firearms by some of the absconding accused. He was promised a substantial sum of money for his role in the conspiracy, the official said.

Baba Siddique (66) was shot dead by three gunmen near the office of his MP son Zeeshan Siddique in Mumbai’s Bandra area on October 12.

Jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s brother Anmol Bishnoi was allegedly behind the murder, police said.