‘Cannot be an encounter’: Bombay HC questions police claims on death of Badlapur sex abuse accused
The court asked why the accused man was shot in the head, and not on his hands or legs first.
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The Bombay High Court on Wednesday questioned whether the death of a man accused of having sexually abused two minor girls in Badlapur near Mumbai, allegedly in an exchange of fire with the police, could be termed as an “encounter”, Bar and Bench reported.
The man, Akshay Shinde, had allegedly sexually abused the minors on August 12 at their school in Badlapur, where he worked as a janitor. Four days later, one of the children reported the incident to her parents who approached the police. Shinde was arrested on August 17.
On Monday, Shinde was being taken to Thane in connection with a separate case of sexual assault filed by his second wife in 2022. The police alleged that he snatched a police weapon and fired at security personnel while he was being taken to the Thane Crime Branch office from the Taloja Jail in Navi Mumbai.
He injured a police officer and was shot in retaliatory firing, according to the authorities. Following this, Shinde’s father, Anna Shinde, filed a petition in the High Court seeking a probe by a Special Investigation Team into his son’s death while in police custody.
On Wednesday, a bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Prithviraj Chavan, while hearing the petition, questioned the claim made by the police that Akshay Shinde snatched an...
