A Pune court on Friday remanded Dattatray Ramdas Gade, the accused in the Pune bus rape case, to 12-day police custody until March 12, according to PTI..Gade, who had been on the run since the early hours of Tuesday, was apprehended from his village, Gunat in Shirur Taluka, at around 1:30 in the morning today. Authorities stated that he had been hiding in a sugarcane field but was captured when officers closed in on him..The alleged incident took place at around 5:30 in the morning on February 25 when Gade reportedly raped a 26-year-old preoperative counselor on a Shivshahi bus that had been parked overnight at the MSRTC Swargate terminus.The survivor, who works at a city hospital, was the one to report the assault to the police around 9:30, that same day. She was later referred for medical examination. Following preliminary inquiries, a First Information Report (FIR) was lodged later that evening.The Swargate bus terminus is one of Pune's busiest state transport hubs, located directly across the Swargate police station.
