Pune bus rape: Police detain accused Dattatray Gade from Shirur

A man who allegedly raped a 26-year-old woman inside a bus at Pune’s Swargate bus station was detained in Shirur Tehsil on Friday (February 28), police said.

The accused identified as Dattatray Gade was detained by Pune Police at around midnight from Pune’s Shirur tehsil.

The woman was raped allegedly by history-sheeter Gade (37) early morning on Tuesday (February 25) inside a State Transport (ST) bus.

#WATCH | Pune (Maharashtra) bus rape case | The accused, Dattatray Ramdas Gade, has been detained by a team of Pune Crime Branch from a village in Shirur Tehsil of Pune district. He has now been brought to a Police Station here.

Visuals from outside the Police Station. pic.twitter.com/ZtBP6FWPtT

— ANI (@ANI) February 28, 2025

Gade, is 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.

Thirteen police teams were deployed at various locations around the state to nab the accused.

The police had also deployed sniffer dogs and drones as part of a search operation within the tracts of sugarcane crop located in Shirur Tehsil in Pune district on Thursday (February 27).