"Everything is concocted and a false story is being presented. I will be moving an interim application before the Bombay High Court by afternoon demanding a court-monitored probe into the shootout," Advocate Asim Sarode told mid-day while speaking on the Badlapur encounter on September 24. Sarode, an intervening advocate for one of the survivors of the Badlapur sexual assault case, clarified that he was not representing Akshay Shinde, the accused who was killed in a police shootout on Monday evening. 

Sarode asserted, "As a human rights advocate, I have always condemned police custodial torture and extra-judicial killings. This case, too, raises many doubts."