India, Feb. 7 -- Over four months after approaching the Bombay high court seeking an investigation into their son's extra-judicial killing, the parents of Akshay Shinde, the accused in the Badlapur school sexual assaults case who was killed in a police encounter in September, appeared to have given up.

On Thursday, just three days after claiming they were being threatened and pressured to withdraw the case, the Shindes told the court they did not wish to pursue their petition. When the court asked them whether they were being pressured to withdraw, they replied in the negative, instead saying they could not run around behind the case anymore as they had to tend to their pregnant daughter-in-law, Akshay's wife.

However, a bench of justic...