The parents of Badlapur sexual assault accused Akshay Shinde, killed in an alleged encounter with police, told the Bombay High Court on Thursday that they no longer want to fight the case concerning his death. | File Photo
Mumbai: The parents of Badlapur sexual assault accused Akshay Shinde, killed in an alleged encounter with police, told the Bombay High Court on Thursday that they no longer want to fight the case concerning his death.
Shinde’s parents made the appeal before the division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Neela Gokhale which is hearing their petition related to their son’s custodial death.
The petition has been filed by Shinde’s father, Anna Shinde, alleging that police killed his son in a fake encounter.
At the end of the proceedings on Thursday, the couple approached the bench and said they were not keen on pursuing the case and wanted it to be closed.
The couple said they were under no pressure from anyone and made the statement on their own.
Badlapur School Assault Accused Killed In Alleged Police Encounter
Akshay Shinde (24) was accused of sexually assaulting two minor girls inside the toilet of a school in Badlapur town of Thane district last year. He was an attendant at the school. He was killed in an alleged encounter with the police while being taken in a van from Navi Mumbai’s Taloja prison to Thane for questioning.
A magisterial inquiry report submitted to the court last month held five cops – senior inspector Sanjay Shinde (Thane crime branch), assistant inspector Nilesh More, head constables Abhijeet More, Harish Tawade and police van driver Satish Khatal – responsible for Shinde’s death.
In his report, submitted in a sealed cover, magistrate Ashok Shengde noted that the “contention raised by the police personnel of right to private or self-defence comes under a shadow of suspicion” due to evidence and other circumstances.
Advocate Amit Desai, appearing for Maharashtra, sought the HC’s direction on Thursday to access some material considered by the magistrate for the inquiry into the alleged encounter.
He told the court that the material was not with the police as the magistrate had recorded the statements of witnesses separately. The police investigation into the matter is not over and they are in a better position to analyse the material, Desai told the court.
The matter will be heard further on Friday.
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