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Pune Bus Rape Case: Dattatraya Ramdas Gade, a serial offender, arrested for the alleged rape of a 26-year-old woman inside a state transport bus parked just 100 meters away from Pune's Swargate police station, had often robbed passengers he took on his car that he operated as a taxi.

Dattatraya Ramdas Gade who was nabbed in Maharashtra's Shirur, would often be seen around the Swargate bus station, where the incident unfolded on Tuesday. He would introduce himself as a policeman to people, as per sources by NDTV. He also introduced himself as a cop to the victim, sources further added.

Gade is also named in half a dozen cases of theft, robbery and chain-snatching in Pune and Ahilyanagar district. He has been out on bail since 2019 in one of the offences.

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Dattatraya Ramdas Gade Purchased Four-Wheeler On Loan

During investigation by Shirur police it was found that Gade had purchased a four-wheeler on loan in 2019. He operated the vehicle as a taxi on the Pune-Ahilyanagar route. He would allegedly offer to drop heavily-adorned elderly women home, take them to a deserted place near the highway and rob them at knifepoint. He would then abandon them at the spot and flee with their belongings.

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Dattatraya Ramdas Gade Served 5-6 Months For Robbery

Dattatraya Ramdas Gade's family is very poor, living in a concrete house with a thatched roof on the Gunat village. His parents work on their agricultural land to fend for themselves. Among his family in the village are his brother, wife and young children. As per villagers in Gunat, Gade started the liquor and taxi businesses to earn quick money.

Questions were also raised about Gade's picture appearing on a banner featuring Ashok Pawar, former MLA of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP). He was allegedly working for the leader during the Assembly election campaign last year. Gade unsuccessfully contested for the post of Sangharsh-Mukti Samiti of Gunat village.

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