Maharashrta Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday (September 25) defended the police in Badlapur sexual assault accused's encounter saying that the officials were acting in self-defence and that they did not carry guns as a 'showpiece'.

Eknath Shinde accused the Opposition of changing its stance over the incident. "They had blocked railway services for nine hours at Badlapur railway station. They said that we would hang the culprit here.

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.

Thane: Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said that the police shot Akshay Shinde in self-defence, the man accused of sexually assaulting two small girls in Badlapur last month. The chief minister’s remarks came just hours after the Bombay High Court raised serious questions over the custodial death of the accused,

A day after Badlapur sexual assault case accused, Akshay Shinde, was killed in alleged retaliatory firing by the police, the officer who fired the shot, maintained he did so ‘self-defence,’ adding that former was behaving ‘aggressively’ while being moved from Navi Mumbai's Taloja jail to Thane.

The body of Akshay Shinde, the accused in the Badlapur sexual assault case, was on Tuesday handed over to police after post-mortem at the JJ Hospital in south Mumbai, an official said