Overview
- A magistrate on Friday remanded 27-year-old Omkar Shinde to 14 days’ judicial custody in the January 24 Malad station stabbing of NM College lecturer Alok Singh.
- Investigators say CCTV shows the accused throwing a pair of forceps from a foot overbridge, and the tool was recovered near Malad East along with the clothes he allegedly wore.
- The GRP has deployed a team at Malad station to identify additional eyewitnesses using CCTV, prioritizing women who were in the same coach.
- Defense counsel challenged the identification, citing reliance on a single witness, viral images of the accused, and a test identification parade that has yet to be conducted.
- Police say Shinde claimed he felt humiliated and intended only to poke the victim with forceps, a version not corroborated by witnesses so far, and he was arrested within about 12 hours using CCTV leads.