The 26-year-old girl, who was raped inside an empty bus on the Swargate depot in Pune, on Monday filed an software earlier than a court docket, looking for a “restraining order” towards “statements uttered in public and on social media”, resulting in her “character assassination”.
Advocate Asim Sarode filed the appliance on behalf of the sufferer earlier than the court docket of judicial Justice of the Peace (top notch) T S Gaygole.
The identical court docket had remanded Dattatraya Ramdas Gade (37), the accused within the case, in police custody until March 12. Throughout the arguments over police custody of the accused on February 28, the defence attorneys submitted earlier than the court docket that the accused didn’t rape the sufferer and that “they’d a consensual bodily relation”. In the meantime, talking to mediapersons, some members of the family of the accused additionally claimed that it was “a case of consensual intercourse”.
The sufferer filed an software by lawyer Sarode looking for a restraining order from the court docket towards such statements.
Within the software, Sarode acknowledged that such statements “are inflicting a severe blow on the thoughts of the sufferer. Therefore, it is crucial within the curiosity of the sufferer that such an order might kindly be handed in her favour and her curiosity”.
Sarode stated the court docket will hear the matter on March 4 after which resolve on the appliance. He stated, “In one other software, I’ve talked about that freedom of press is vital and media individuals must report no matter occurs within the court docket. However some individuals are spreading false information. Character assassination of the sufferer is being performed and so she is looking for justice.”
In the meantime, the probe into the case was handed over to the crime department of Pune metropolis police on Monday.
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A senior police officer overseeing the case stated that the assertion of the sufferer was recorded earlier than a court docket in Pune on Monday, as per Part 183 of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS). The officer added, “All essential procedures associated to forensic proof have been accomplished, together with DNA sampling of the accused.”
In line with the police, the sufferer was allegedly raped twice by the accused within the government-operated ‘Shivshahi’ bus stationed on the Swargate depot in Pune within the early hours of February 25.
Police informed the court docket that the sufferer was ready on the bus depot to catch a bus to her hometown in Satara district round 5.30 am on the day of the incident. Police stated the accused, who was loitering on the bus depot, allegedly approached the sufferer and requested “Tai, kuthe challis tu? (Sister, the place are you headed?)” As she replied, Gade allegedly informed her that the bus for her hometown was parked at one other location on the depot.
Police stated Gade saved calling her “Tai (sister)”, resulting from which she trusted him, however he allegedly misled her and made her come together with him to the Shivshahi bus (Swargate to Solapur route) within the depot. There have been no lights and no passengers within the bus, so she felt suspicious and informed the accused, “Dada, mala baher jau dya, mala ghari jayche ahe (Brother, let me exit of the bus, I’ve to go residence)”. However the accused allegedly raped her twice within the bus. Because the bus was air-conditioned, its home windows are completely closed, the police stated.
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After the incident, the accused fled from the spot. The sufferer later boarded one other bus for her hometown. On reaching Hadapsar, she spoke along with her male pal over the cellphone. He insisted that she method the police.
She then got here to the Swargate police station and lodged an FIR towards the accused underneath Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 64, 351 (2). Police recognized Gade from clues obtained from video footage of CCTV cameras contained in the Swargate bus depot and different places. The police recognized the accused as Dattatraya Gade of Gunat village in Shirur taluka of Pune district. After a rigorous search operation, police nabbed Gade at Gunat, with the assistance of native villagers round 1.10 am on February 28.
His brother held a press convention in Pune together with defence attorneys Wajed Khan Bidkar and Sajid Shah. “We place confidence in the police and judiciary. The sufferer must also get justice. If the court docket offers penalty to him (accused), we are going to settle for it…. However a good probe needs to be performed. Media is exhibiting only one facet of the coin… Media must also present the opposite facet of the coin… Regardless of the fact ought to come ahead…,” his borther stated.
