The day the protests flared on 20 August, former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray while speaking to the media said: “I don’t want to do politics on the matter but I have been informed that the trust has links with the BJP. I just want to say that anybody who is responsible must not be spared, irrespective of their affiliation.”
According to the website of the Adarsh Vidya Prasarak Sanstha that runs the Adarsh school where the incident took place, Apte has been listed as the ‘Secretary’ under the list of the board of trustees.
NCP national spokesperson Anish Gawande took to X on Thursday to cite a report by Hindustan Times and said: “Accused in the Badlapur case was a cleaner in trustee’s house. Trustee is Tushar Apte, affiliated with the BJP. Firing principal is an eyewash.”
The HT report, citing sources in Maharashtra’s Mantralaya, claims that the principal of the school told the state government’s two-member committee about the accused Akshay Shinde having worked at one…