Pune: The state prosecution on Tuesday told a city court that Shoaib alias Akhtar Babu Shaikh, the main accused in the Oct 3 gang rape of an event management student (21) in Bopdev ghat, misled the police by giving fictitious names of himself and the third suspect from Baramati, still wanted in the case. Assistant public prosecutor Aamrapali Kasture submitted that the police needed to take Shaikh (27) to Latur, from where he hails, and his in-laws' place in Nagpur to verify his Aadhaar card and birth certificate documents to establish his genuine name. This was after the police found discrepancies in his father's name given by Shaikh, she submitted.
The prosecutor said investigations revealed that Shaikh gave a fictitious name of the wanted suspect and the police had established his actual identity. The police wanted to find out the wanted suspect's whereabouts and arrest him after interrogating Shaikh and the other arrested accused, Chandrakumar Raviprasad Kanaujia (20), she submitted. The police needed to confront the two arrested accused in custody to unravel all details of the crime, including their whereabouts before and after the crime, the places they visited, identify witnesses and if any other person helped them while they were on the run, she submitted.
The prosecutor told the court that the police also needed to establish if the two accused and their wanted accomplice were part of similar crimes in the past. Judicial magistrate first class AA Kulkarni ordered custo.
