Accused in Badlapur kids' sexual assault shot dead after he snatches police gun

Akshay Shinde, the 23-year-old arrested for sexually assaulting two nursery school girls in Maharashtra's Badlapur, was killed in retaliatory firing after he snatched a policeman's pistol and fired at the police. The cross-firing incident occurred when Shinde was being taken to Thane in connection to a separate case by his second wife in 2022. A police officer was also injured.