Bombay High Court orders expedited inquiry into custodial death of Badlapur sex abuse case accused
The court said that it will wait for the findings of the report before ruling on the plea filed by the person’s father seeking an SIT probe.
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The Bombay High Court on Thursday ordered an expedited magisterial inquiry into the custodial death of a man accused of sexually abusing two minor girls in Badlapur near Mumbai in August, Bar and Bench reported.
A bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and PK Chavan directed that the inquiry report be submitted by the next hearing, scheduled for November 18.
The court said that it will wait for the findings of the report before ruling on the petition filed by the father of the accused seeking an investigation by a Special Investigation Team into his son’s death while in police custody.
“Law requires that when there is a custodial death, the investigation be conducted by the magistrate,” the court said. “Let the investigation be conducted. We will wait for the report of the magistrate.”
The accused, Akshay Shinde, allegedly sexually abused the minors on August 12 in their school, where he worked as a janitor. Four days later, one of the children reported the incident to her parents who approached the police. He was arrested on August 17.
On September 23, Shinde died while he was being taken from Taloja Jail in Navi Mumbai to the Crime Branch office in Thane in connection with a separate case of sexual assault filed by his second wife in 2022.
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