Badlapur Rape Accused's Mother Challenges Police Version On Van Shooting
NDTV
The Badlapur rape accused's family denied that he could fire at the cops, and alleged they had pressured him to confess his role in the rape case.
The mother of the 24-year-old school sweeper, who is accused of raping two nursery girls in Maharashtra's Badlapur, has challenged the police claim of the events that led to his death in custody yesterday. Akshay Shinde snatched the gun of a constable and shot a police officer inside the police van, and was injured in retaliatory firing by the cops, the police had said. He died at the hospital.
His family denied that he could fire at the cops, and alleged they had pressured him to confess his role in the rape case.
"My son was afraid of bursting crackers and crossing the road. How can he shoot at policemen. The police also got the confessional statement written by him under pressure. What he was made to write, only he knows," the accused's mother and uncle told reporters last night.
