The body of Akshay Shinde, the accused in the Badlapur sexual assault case, was on Tuesday handed over to the police after post-mortem at the JJ Hospital in south Mumbai, an official said.

Shinde was killed near Mumbra bypass in Thane on Monday evening when he allegedly snatched the gun of a cop while being ferried in a police vehicle as part of a probe in a case against him on the complaint of his former wife, the official added.