New SIT formed to probe Badlapur encounter case after SC order

“Following the Supreme Court order, the papers have been handed over to the new SIT.  Since the Supreme Court has clarified that a new FIR is not needed, they will be investigating the FIR that was registered at the Mumbra police station,” the official said.

Shinde was earlier posted as Superintendent of Police, Palghar following which he was additional commissioner (east region) in Thane before he was transferred to MBVV.

The case has seen several flip flops ever since the killing that took place on September 23 last year. Initially, an FIR was registered at Mumbra police station based on the police version that Akshay Shinde had attempted to fire at them, and they shot him in self-defence. The FIR on the charge of attempt to murder was against Shinde.

Later, the state CID began a probe in the matter. Shinde’s family, however, by then approached the Bombay High Court seeking registration of an FIR in the case and formation of SIT. A magisterial inquiry report submitted before the court said that as per evidence, there were doubts that the accused had been killed in self-defence.

After expressing unhappiness with the CID probe which did not register an FIR in the case, the HC asked for an SIT to be formed under joint commissioner of police (crime) Mumbai.

The order was however challenged by the state in the Supreme Court which amended the HC order and asked state DGP Rashmi Shukla to form an SIT in the matter. The SC also clarified that since an FIR was registered in the Mumbra police station, a second FIR against was not needed.