Trial into Badlapur school sexual abuse case should be fast-tracked: Bombay High Court
The chargesheet submitted by a Special Investigation Team named the headmaster of the school and two members of management for failing to report the assault.
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The Bombay High Court on Monday stated that the trial in a case pertaining to the alleged sexual abuse of two four-year-old girls in Badlapur should be fast-tracked, reported PTI.
The girls were allegedly sexually abused by a male attendant, Akshay Shinde, at their school on August 12. One of them told her parents about the assault on August 16, after which they approached the police.
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.
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 the 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”.
In October, the Bombay High Court ordered an expedited magisterial inquiry into Shinde’s custodial death.
Meanwhile, the...
