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The court, while directing registration of an FIR in the case, said the police personnel could have easily handled the situation and the use of force cannot be justified. Live Law reports that there are no fingerprints of the deceased on the gun and the report states that the police say that he fired in personal defence.
A magistrate inquiry report presented before the Bombay High Court on Monday into the alleged encounter of the accused in the Badlapur sexual assault case found that five policemen were responsible for the death of the accused. The report was submitted in a sealed cover and was partially read in the open court by a bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Neela Gokhale. The court said that the government is bound to register an FIR based on the report and wanted to know which investigating agency will investigate the case.
The court, while directing registration of an FIR in the case, said the police personnel could have easily handled the situation and the use of force cannot be justified. According to the Live Law report, there are no fingerprints of the deceased on the gun and the report says that the police’s statement that he fired in personal defense is unfair and open to doubt. The case involves Akshay Shinde, who was accused of sexually assaulting two minors in a school toilet in Badlapur. There was a massive protest in Badlapur over the way the police handled the case.
Shinde, a sanitation worker working at the school, was arrested on August 17 for sexually assaulting two girls, aged three and four, in the school toilet. He was killed in an alleged police encounter on September 23 while being taken from Taloja jail for questioning. The police claimed that he snatched a gun from the police van, opened fire and was killed in the retaliatory firing. Senior police inspector Sanjay Shinde shot Akshay, while API Nilesh More, two constables and a police driver were present in the van at the time of the firing.
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