Pune bus rape accused Dattatray Ramdas Gade called the 26-year-old woman ‘didi’ (sister) and took her to an empty ‘Shiv Shahi’ bus parked at the Swargate depot and raped her, the police told court on Friday.
According to a PTI report, the 37-year-old accused faces half a dozen criminal cases in Pune and Ahilyanagar districts, and was clearly seen in the CCTV footage of the bus terminus on the day of the incident.
According to the police, data of the mobile phone he was using was yet to be recovered. The police stated that out of the half a dozen cases registered against Gade, women are complainants in five of them.
On Friday, a Pune court sent Gade to police custody till March 12. He was nabbed from a paddy field following an extensive search operation carried out with the help of drones and sniffer dogs around midnight on Thursday in Shirur tehsil of Pune district.
Scared with police action, he attempted suicide by hanging himself with a dry tree in a field, but the rope was broken and his attempt was in vain.
“According to the primary medical report, a ligature mark was found on the accused. It is suspected that he attempted suicide. We are waiting for the final report,” Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
