Thane: The father of Akshay Shinde, accused in the Badlapur sexual assault case who was killed by police in ‘retaliatory firing’, has moved the Bombay High Court seeking probe by a Special Investigation Team into the alleged ‘fake encounter’. Anna Shinde, represented by advocate Amit Katarnaware, claimed in his petition that his son was killed in a “fake encounter.” An SIT should be formed to probe the killing and the high court should monitor the investigation, the petition demanded.
"The accused was in custody when he was shot dead in a fake encounter. This is a cold-blooded murder by criminals in uniforms," advocate Katarnaware said. The petition will be heard by a division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday.
Badlapur accused encounter.The accused's parents have moved the High Court, alleging their son was killed to destroy evidence.The post-mortem report indicates the cause of death as hemorrhage and shock, with a 5-member forensic team conducting the autopsy.The court will… pic.twitter.com/S5qLjTQfsu
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Notably, two nursery class girls were sexually assaulted in a school in Badlapur town of Thane district, leading to massive protests by the parents and locals who gathered at Badlpaur railway station hitting the train services. Later, some of them even vandalised the school after which the accused, who works as cleaning staff in the school, was arrested.
A contractual sweeper at the school, Shinde was arrested on August 17 even as the crime triggered massive protests in the state. He was killed near Mumbra Bypass in Thane on Monday evening after he allegedly snatched a cop's gun while he was being taken in a police vehicle. He was being ferried as part of a probe into a case registered against him on the complaint of his former wife, an official earlier said.
The Maharashtra government earlier on Tuesday said the state Crime Investigation Department (CID) will conduct a probe into his death. Shinde's body was taken from the Kalwa civic hospital in Thane to the JJ Hospital for postmortem on Tuesday morning, a senior Thane police official said.