The Maharashtra Police on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that in connection with the custodial death of a man accused of sexually abusing two minor girls in , near Mumbai, in August, Live Law reported.

The police said this would be done by Saturday.

This came after a division bench of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Neela Gokhale warned the police and a court-appointed Special Investigation Team appointed by the court of for not complying with its April 7 order.

On April 7, the court ordered that an FIR be filed against five police officers allegedly involved in the custodial death. In January, a Thane magistrate had told the High Court that they were.

The man, Akshay Shinde, allegedly the minors on August 12 on the premises of their school, where he worked as a janitor. Four days later, one of the children reported the incident to her parents who approached the police. Shinde was arrested on August 17.

On September 23, Shinde died while he was being taken from Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai to the Crime Branch office in Thane in connection with a filed by his second wife in 2022.

The police claimed that Shinde and fired at security personnel while in...