‘Refusal to investigate undermines rule of law’: Bombay HC orders SIT probe against cops over Badlapur case ‘encounter’
Observing that “refusal to investigate will allow perpetrators to go unpunished,” the Bombay High Court on Monday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Mumbai police to probe the custodial death of an accused in the Badlapur sexual assault case. A 23-year-old janitor, arrested in August 2024 for the alleged sexual assault of two minor girls at a school in Badlapur in Thane district, was shot dead while he was being transported in a police vehicle on September 23.
The SIT will be supervised by Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Lakhmi Gautam and headed by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mumbai.
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The high court said, “The case requires thorough investigation as it is undisputed that the deceased succumbed to bullets fired...