A court docket in Pune son Tuesday despatched the second accused arrested within the Bopdev Ghat gangrape case to judicial custody with the Pune police reserving the suitable to hunt his additional custody for the aim of investigation, if and when required.
So have, police have arrested two accused within the case and have launched a co-ordinated manhunt for the third one, whose preliminary id has been established by the investigators.
The custody of Akhtar Babu Shaikh (27) alias Shoaib, who was arrested by the Pune metropolis police crime department from Prayagraj on October 14, ended on Tuesday. Shaikh is the second accused to be arrested within the case after Chandrakumar Raviprasad Kanojiya (20), a local of Dindori in Madhya Pradesh (MP), who was arrested on October 10 and is already in jail beneath judicial custody.
On Tuesday, Shaikh was produced earlier than a court docket in Pune the place the police sought that he be despatched to judicial custody saying they have been reserving the suitable to hunt additional custody if and when required for the aim of investigation. The court docket despatched Shaikh to judicial custody for 14 days.
Earlier, The Indian Categorical reported that the Pune metropolis police sought appointment of a particular public prosecutor within the case and in addition pressed for the trial to be carried out in a fast-track method.
A 21-year-old girl and her male buddy, each school college students, had gone to Bopdev Ghat space on a bike on the evening of October 3. Round 11pm, the three males got here to the spot on their bikes and allegedly threatened them with sharp weapons and robbed their valuables. Police mentioned the accused tied the lady’s buddy together with his shirt and belt, dragged the lady to an remoted space and raped her.
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