Mumbai: Akshay Shinde ‘encounter killing’ confirmed pretend

Sanjay Shinde, the policeman who was injured throughout the encounter, additionally had a controversial previous, which added to the suspicion.

Sanjay Shinde allegedly helped Vijay Palande, accused in two homicide instances, to flee from police custody in 2012. Palande escaped carrying Sanjay Shinde’s uniform!

Sanjay Shinde was additionally on the staff of ‘encounter specialist’ Pradeep Sharma. And it was Sanjay Shinde who fired the final bullet at Akshay Shinde.

The accused’s household and a number of other activists had, on the time, alleged that the encounter was pretend and the magisterial inquiry report has now confirmed their suspicions. However what was the motive?

Folks’s anger had spilled onto the streets. Trains have been being stopped and railway strains blockaded. Folks demanded that Akshay Shinde be hanged and motion taken towards the absconding faculty trustees. With the election not far away, there was a number of stress on the federal government to ‘do one thing’.

And now, the discovering comes as a significant embarrassment to the BJP-led Mahayuti authorities within the state.

Each Devendra Fadnavis, who was the deputy chief minister on the time, and then-chief minister Eknath Shinde had lauded the policemen after the killing. Responding to the general public outrage, they’d accused the activists of being hypocrites. They have been demanding capital punishment for the accused however now that he has been killed, they have been crying foul and accusing the police of extra-judicial killing, they’d mocked.

This time, the roles have been reversed — with Fadnavis the chief minister and Shinde one of many two deputy chief ministers — however it’s nonetheless the identical set in authorities.