Pune/IBNS, Feb. 27 -- The Pune man, who is on the run after allegedly raping a young woman just, 100 metres from a police station, inside a bus parked inside the city's bus Swargate Bus Stand, may be hiding in a field full of sugarcane plants near his hometown, police sources told NDTV on Thursday afternoon.

According to reports, the police had deployed eight special teams, sniffer dogs, and drones as part of an ongoing search operation within the vast tracts of sugarcane crops.

Drones are required in the search operation as each plant can grow up to 10 feet in height, making it difficult, if not impossible, for the police.

The police had set up 13 special teams, including eight from the Crime Branch, to track him down, and spoke to fa...