A team of five forensic surgeons from the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology at Grant Medical College and Sir JJ Group of Hospitals conducted the autopsy on the body of Akshay Shinde, 24 the accused in the Badlapur sexual assault case. They cited haemorrhage and shock resulting from a firearm injury as the preliminary cause of death. Shinde was shot and killed by a Thane police team on Monday evening.

A single bullet had hit the left parietal side of the head and it exited from the right cheek, leading to severe skull fracture and injury to the brain, causing two bullet injury wounds (entry and exit). The body was tagged for identification and the entire procedure was videographed/photographed, as per the custodial death autopsy procedure.