New Delhi, Feb. 28 -- A court has sent Dattatray Ramdas Gade, accused of raping a woman inside an empty parked state transport bus at Swargate depot in Pune city, to police custody till March 12. The police found Gade in a paddy field following an extensive search operation carried out with the help of drones and sniffer dogs.

Gade's lawyer, Advocate Wajid Khan, claimed that nothing was done forcefully and the victim could have shouted for help.

"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 alleged inciden...