India, Feb. 27 -- Following the alleged rape of a 26-year-old woman inside a parked state transport bus at Pune's Swargate bus depot, NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule pointed out that the depot chief had previously alerted the police about security concerns at the site.

She urged Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, who also holds the home ministry portfolio, to immediately review the law and order situation in Pune. She asked him to "take strict measures regarding women's safety as well as safety of the bus station".

The accused in the alleged rape case at the Swargate bus depot has been identified as one Dattatraya Ramdas Gade, a history-sheeter, who has several cases of theft, robbery and chain snatching registered against him. ...