Pune Bus Rape Case: How Accused Was Caught After Requesting Food and Water

Pune Bus Rape Case: The Maharashtra Police stepped on the gas on their probe into the alleged Pune bus rape case and made it even more obvious that it was a simple bag of food and water leading to the accused's arrest.

Dattatray Ramdas Gade, 37, was taken into custody by Pune police for Friday. He was wanted after the rape of a woman within a bus as he sat at Swargate bus station in Pune in the early hours of Tuesday.

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The manhunt that was going nowhere initially gained steam courtesy of important tip-off coming from an unsuspecting local family, assisted police in nabbing the rape accused, news agency PTI reported.

Within the hours that followed the report by Gade took up the beating and bloodhounds of the police into another aerial and terrestrial search; but the bull escaped through waters after he approached a family for food and water, which eventually apprehended him.

Joint Commissioner of Police Ranjan Kumar Sharma said the family informed the police about the accused's presence in the area, after which the police team resumed the search.

According to the Pune police, there's a ligature mark on the neck of the accused, which gives rise to a suspicion that he might have attempted suicide.

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The senior official expressed gratitude to the residents of Gunat village for assisting police in the search operation.

The accused, Dattatray Ramdas Gade, was arrested from a paddy field during midnight hours in Shirur tehsil.

A history-sheeter Gade has come running to his native place in Shirur after allegedly sexually assaulting a 26-year-old woman inside a state transport bus at Swargate bus station early Tuesday morning.

Gade has police records in five-six cases of theft, robbery, and chain-snatching from Pune and Ahilyanagar. He had managed to get bail in one offense and has been out since 2019.

It is sourced from PTI that the accused switched off his phone, but the police managed to reach his village.

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