Badlapur sexual assault case: Cop who shot Akshay Shinde was part of team led by ‘encounter specialist’ Pradeep Sharma

Mumbai: The cop who shot 23-year-old Akshay Shinde, the accused contained in the Badlapur sexual assault case in Maharashtra, changed right into a part of a team led by the famed “come across specialist” Pradeep Sharma. Senior Inspector Sanjay Shinde shot Akshay on Monday near the Mumbra Bypass in Thane after he snatched a constable’s gun and fired at a police officer in an are trying and get away. The police then took him to the health facility, where he changed into declared dead.

Sanjay on the origin served contained in the Mumbai Police and is now a part of the Special Investigation Team formed by the state government to probe the Badlapur sexual assault case. He faced an inquiry and suspension after an accused murderer, Vijay Palande, escaped from police custody in 2012. Per reports, he faced every other inquiry when he exchanged fire with a police officer after getting drunk at a bar.

Pradeep Sharma in films

NDTV reported that Sanjay changed into featured contained in the Netflix docuseries “Mumbai Mafia: Police vs. The Underworld“. He changed right into a part of the team that headed the Anti-Extortion Cell of the Thane Crime Branch. This team changed into credited with arresting underworld don Dawood Ibrahim’s brother Iqbal Kaskar in an extortion case in 2017. Additionally, Sharma changed into the topic of the 2014 Marathi crime thriller “Rege“, wherein actor Mahesh Manjrekar portrayed him.

Earlier this year, Sharma changed into convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Bombay High Court for the fake come across of Ramnarayan Gupta, who changed into an alleged close aide of gangster Chhota Rajan, in 2006.

Shooting of the Badlapur rape case accused

Akshay Shinde, the accused contained in the Badlapur sexual assault case, changed into arrested by the police 5 days after two minor girls informed their parents about the assault, which took place on school premises in Badlapur town contained in the Thane district. The shooting incident came about when officers from Badlapur went to Taloja Reformatory to take Akshay into custody in a brand new rape and assault case filed by his first wife. When the police reached the Mumbra Bypass in Thane, he snatched a gun and fired on the officers in an are trying and flee, leading Senior Inspector Sanjay Shinde to shoot him dead.