Dattatray Ramdas Gade, 37, is accused of raping a 26-year-old woman inside an empty state transport bus at Swargate depot in Pune city. He was arrested 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. The police submitted a remand application to the court and sought Gade’s custody for 14 days. The court, after listening to both sides, remanded Gade to police custody till March 12. The data of the mobile phone he was using was yet to be recovered, the police informed the court. Out of the half a dozen cases registered against him, women are complainants in five of them, police said. The case is being investigated by the Pune Police Crime Branch and Pune Special Cell of the Maharashtra State Anti-Robbery and Sexual Offences Wing, Pune City Police.
