Badlapur police encounter: Family challenges claim that assault case accused fired at cop first
The Hindu
Family challenges police claim in Badlapur sexual assault case; high-level probe ordered into accused's death.
The family members of Badlapur sexual assault case accused Akshay Shinde have challenged the police claim that he fired at a policeman first following which cops fired in self-defence which led to his death.
Shinde's kin also claimed that police pressured him for a confession in the sexual assault case.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday (September 23, 2024) night said a high-level probe has been ordered into the incidents leading to Shinde's death.
Shinde's body was taken from the Kalwa civic hospital in Thane to the state-run J.J. Hospital in neighbouring Mumbai for postmortem on Tuesday (September 24, 2024) morning, a senior Thane police official said.
The autopsy was being conducted at the J.J. hospital, he added.
Shinde, 24, was accused of sexually assaulting two minor girls at a school in Badlapur town of Thane district.
A contractual sweeper at the school in Badlapur, Shinde was arrested on August 17, five days after he allegedly sexually abused the two girls in the school toilet.
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