Maharashtra sets up commission to probe custodial death of Badlapur sex abuse case accused
The police claimed that he was shot in retaliatory firing, which led to his death.
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The Maharashtra government on Tuesday set up a commission to investigate the custodial death of a man accused of sexually abusing two minor girls in Badlapur near Mumbai in August, The Hindu reported.
The single-member commission consists of Dilip Bhosale, a retired chief justice of the Allahabad High Court.
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. Shinde 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.
The police claimed that he snatched a police weapon and fired at security personnel during his transportation. He injured a police officer and was shot in retaliatory firing that led to his death, according to the authorities.
Shinde’s death in police firing drew criticism of the state government from the Opposition parties in Maharashtra with Congress leader and former Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan alleging that the accused was killed in a “fake encounter” by the police to “save certain people”.
Shinde’s father, Anna Shinde, filed a petition in the Bombay High Court...
