The accused Daddatreya Ramdas Gade knocked on a door of a house in Gunat village at around 12 am and asked for water. He was hungry, so after drinking water, he went in search of food. At the same time, the informer gave information about him to the police. 

Daddatreya Ramdas Gade, accused of raping a 26-year-old woman in a bus parked at Swargate bus stand in Pune, has been arrested. Police arrested the accused from Shirur tehsil of Pune at around 1.30 am and he will be presented in Pune court today. Accused Gade committed the rape on Tuesday morning. He was being searched since then. Police had formed thirteen teams to search for the accused and a reward of one lakh was also placed on him. 

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Accused Gade was hiding in a field in Shirur taluka. 13 teams of Pune police were searching for him since yesterday. Police also raided his village in Shirur taluka. Late night around 12 o'clock Gade knocked on the door of a house in Gunat village and asked for water. He was hungry, so after drinking water he went in search of food. At the same time, an informer gave information about him to the police. 

Drones were also used,

DCP Nikhil Pingale informed IT. Taking swift action, the police found the accused in a field near the village. On Thursday itself, the police had announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for information about the accused history-sheeter. Not only this, the help of drones and dog squad was taken to catch the accused. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said that the government will try to ensure death penalty for the culprit.

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The accused, Dattatreya Ramdas Gade (37), is wanted in half a dozen cases of theft, robbery and chain-snatching in Pune and Ahilyanagar districts. He has been out on bail since 2019. Officials said that Pune city and Pune rural police also conducted a search operation in sugarcane fields in Gunat village with drones and dog squads and more than 100 policemen reached the village during this time.

What was the matter

Swargate in Pune is one of the biggest bus depots of Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC). According to the victim, she was waiting for a bus to Phaltan in Satara district on a platform at around 5.45 am on Tuesday when Gade engaged her in conversation by calling her 'didi' and said that the bus for Satara had arrived on another platform.

He took her to an empty 'Shiv Shahi' AC bus parked at another place on the campus. Since the lights inside the bus were not working, she hesitated to board it. But the accused assured her that the same bus would go to Satara. The woman, who works in the medical field, told the police that Gade then followed her and raped her.

After the incident, Maharashtra Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik announced the removal of all junk buses and other vehicles parked at MSRTC depots before April 15, 2025. Addressing the media at the ministry, Sarnaik said that GPS, panic buttons and CCTV cameras will be installed in about 15,000 buses, including hired ones. Sarnaik said that the MSRTC has about 2,700 security guards and they are considering whether this number can be increased by increasing the number of women guards by 15-20 per cent.