The Bombay high court said the shoot-out of Akshay Shinde could have been avoided and urged for the probe into his death to be carried out in a fair manner.

The Bombay High Court expressed skepticism about the police’s account of Akshay Shinde’s death in a supposed encounter, demanding an impartial investigation and questioning the police’s self-defense claims,

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the State CID to conduct a fair and impartial probe into the alleged encounter of Badlapur sexual assault accused. The court said that it did not suspect the police but expressed that they must come clean.

Aaditya Thackeray, MLA from Uddhav Sena, has condemned the disturbing events in Badlapur, describing them as not only a failure of governance under Chief Minister Eknath Shinde but also an affront to basic human dignity.

Aaditya Thackeray remarked that a "Shinde" was killed to protect an "Apte," suggesting deeper issues of injustice under the current regime.

Akshay Shinde, accused of sexually abusing two nursery school girls in Maharashtra's Badlapur, was shot dead by police after allegedly seizing a constable's gun and firing at officers during his transfer from Taloja jail.