Dattatray Gade age 37 who was arrested by Police on Friday from the sugar cane fields at his native village Gunat 70 Km from the city in Shirur taluka off the highway Ahmednagar. He said he tried to hang himself 3 times but his attempts in vain to end his life by hanging himself while he was hiding. The rope he used to hang himself broken each time as per the police statement.
Police said they have found ligature marks on Gade’s neck when they have arrested him. Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar said when we asked him about those marks then he told our investigators that he tried to hang himself late on Thursday night from a tree near to sugar cane field where he was hiding.
Police got his custodial remand for 14 days on the ground of investigating the rape case. Gade’s lawyers, Wajid Khan Bidkar and Ajinkya Mahadik, opposed the remand by submitting that there was no rape they said it was a case of consensual relationship after their client and survivor had chat at bus depot. Court has ordered Gade’s custodial remand till March 12