NEW DELHI: The Pune bus rape case accused Dattatray Ramdas Gade was sent to 12-day police custody by court on Friday.
Pune’s judicial magistrate first class court remanded accused Gade to police custody.
Gade was from his village, Gunat, in Shirur Taluka around 1.30am. He had been hiding in a sugarcane field but came out when officers moved in to apprehended him, officials said.
Gade had been on the run since early Tuesday morning after allegedly raping a health counselor inside a Shivshahi bus parked overnight at the Swargate terminus.
A 26-year-old preoperative counselor working at a city hospital was allegedly raped by Gade who already has a police record inside a Shivshahi bus parked overnight at the MSRTC Swargate terminus around 5.30am on Tuesday.
The Swargate bus terminus, one of Pune’s largest state transport hubs, is located directly opposite the Swargate police station. It sees a daily footfall of around 60,000 passengers and handles 600 bus movements, connecting Mumbai, Solapur, Ahilyanagar, Kolhapur, Sangli, and Satara, as well as destinations in Karnataka and Goa.
The survivor, originally from Phaltan in Satara district, resides in Aundh. She works as a preoperative counselor at a city hospital, where she educates patients about their surgeries, including risks, benefits, and post-operative care, to help them manage anxiety. She reported the incident to the police around 9.30 am on Tuesday and was referred for a medical examination.
Following an initial inquiry, an FIR was registered later that evening, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone II) Smartana Patil told TOI on Wednesday.