- By Sahelee Rakshit
- Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:56 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Pune Rape Case: A Pune court on Friday remanded Dattatray Ramdas Gade, the accused in the Pune bus rape case, in 12-day police detention till March 12. Advocate Sajid Shah, defending Gade, stated in court that the event occurred "with consent." Another of his defense team stated that "she could have shouted and sought help" and that "nothing was done forcefully."
"The accused has been sent to police custody till March 12. In defence of the accused, we have told the court that whatever happened, it happened following a consent between the two," advocate Sajid Shah told news agency PTI.
VIDEO | Pune rape incident: "The accused has been sent to police custody till March 12. In defence of the accused, we have told the court that whatever happened, it happened following a consent between the two," says advocate Sajid Shah after accused Ramdas Gade was sent to… pic.twitter.com/utYKyQPEUm
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"The investigating officer said that he is a habitual offender but he was not convicted in any of the previous cases. It was 5.45 am the morning (the time of the alleged incident); she could have shouted and sought help. Nothing was done forcefully," defence lawyer advocate Wajid Khan told ANI.
Pune bus rape case | Defence lawyer Advocate Wajid Khan says, "He (Dattatray Ramdas Gade) has been sent to 12-day police custody. The earlier cases on him were of robbery, not rape. The Investigating Officer said that he is a habitual offender but he was not convicted in any of… pic.twitter.com/f4R3h0ggHQ
— ANI (@ANI) February 28, 2025
Gade, who had been evading capture since early Tuesday morning, was captured around 1:30 AM from his village, Gunat, in Shirur Taluka. When police moved in to capture him, he came out of the sugarcane field where he had been hiding, according to authorities.
A 26-year-old preoperative counselor at a city hospital was reportedly raped by Gade, who already has a criminal record, aboard a Shivshahi bus stopped overnight at the MSRTC Swargate terminal at 5.30 AM on Tuesday.
The Swargate police station is right across from the Swargate bus terminal, one of Pune's biggest state transportation hubs. With 600 bus operations every day, it connects Mumbai, Solapur, Ahilyanagar, Kolhapur, Sangli, and Satara with locations in Karnataka and Goa. It also sees more than 60,000 passengers each day.