The Bombay High Court on Wednesday told the police that they must "clarify what exactly happened" during the Badlapur encounter. "It’s hard to believe. It takes strength to pull the slider. We are not creating doubt, but the police must clarify what exactly happened," the court said after the public prosecutor, while giving a timeline of the events surrounding the Badlapur encounter, said that the deceased had taken out the service gun of an assistant police inspector. 

Akshay Shinde, accused of sexually assaulting two toddlers in a Badlapur school, was shot dead by the police on Monday evening. While the police maintained that he was shot in self-defence, his family suspected foul play and filed a petition in the HC seeking a probe into his death.