Pune, Feb. 28 -- A Pune court on Friday remanded Dattatray Ramdas Gade, the accused in the Pune bus rape case, to 12 days of police custody till March 12.

After the court's order, defence lawyer advocate Wajid Khan said, "He (Dattatray Ramdas Gade) has been sent to 12-day police custody. The earlier cases on him were of robbery, not rape. The investigating officer said that he is a habitual offender but he was not convicted in any of the previous cases. It was 5.45 am the morning (the time of the rape on Tuesday); she could have shouted and sought help. Nothing was done forcefully."

The accused, who was detained by a team of the Pune Crime Branch from a village in Shirur Tehsil of the Pune district, was formally arrested on Friday.

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