Bombay High Court on Wednesday while hearing a petition filed by father of the deceased accused in the Badlapur minors' sexual assault case remarked that it was difficult to believe that it was an encounter. The father of the accused had moved the Bombay High Court alleging that his son was killed in a fake encounter on Monday.

The high court has directed all the five officers who were present at the time of the encounter to submit their CDR records and has directed preservation of CCTV footages in nearby area where the incident occured.

The father has sought a direction from the court to order probe in the murder, registration of FIR against the erring officers and to preserve the CCTV footages of Taloja prison and the vicinity near the spot where the incident took place.  

The father of the accused Akshay Shinde told the court that on the date of incident, he interacted with him and was asking when will he get bail. He told the court that Shinde was not in a mental state to commit anything as claimed by the police that he snatched the pistol and shot at the officers. 

"My client had met his son just few hours before the his fake encounter. His mannerisms did not indicate about any intent to escape. He in fact asked the parents for giving him some Rs 500, so that he can avail canteen services. He was not in a state to escape or had any physical capacity to snatch the pistol from an officer.  My client's say that his son is killed in view of the forthcoming elections," counselappearing for father of the accused told the court.

He further told the court that law mandates that whenever there is an encounter which is alleged to be fake, an FIR needs to be registered. We do have an alternate remedy to approach JMFC for registering an FIR but that court will not have extraordinary powers like this court to order an SIT probe.