Pune: The survivor in the Oct 3, 2024, gangrape and robbery at Bopdev ghat in the city on Saturday completed the in-camera recording of her evidence before the court of additional sessions judge HM Bhosale, narrating in detail how the sexual assault was committed on her by the three accused.“The court has directed a day-to-day hearing of the case from Monday (June 1),” special prosecutor Ujjwala Pawar told TOI. A major part of the survivor’s evidence stands completed and she will be part of the process on Monday to identify articles like her ornaments robbed during the crime, her clothes and a test identification parade (TIP) before the court, Pawar said.Apart from recalling the heinous assault, the survivor also narrated the injuries suffered in the assault and a prolonged treatment she had to undergo to recover from the same.The three accused, Chandrakumar Raviprasad Kanojiya, Shoeb alias Akhtar alias Aktar Jamir alias Jamal alias Babu Shaikh alias Lakhpati, and Bapya alias Somnath alias Suraj Dashrath Gosavi alias Yadav, were produced via videoconferencing from the Yerawada Central Prison on Saturday. They will be physically produced before the court on Monday for the next hearing.The in-camera trial of the case started on Feb 13, 2026.The survivor, an event management student aged 20 at the time of the incident, is from Gujarat and was pursuing studies in Pune. She and her friend, a chartered accountancy student from north Maharashtra, had gone to Bopdev Ghat on a night out around 11pm on Oct 3, 2024.An hour later, three men approached them near the ‘Table Point’ on the ghat along the Yewalewadi-Saswad Road. They thrashed and forced her friend to remove his shirt and trouser belt, and used the same to tie him up, before taking turns to rape the young woman and rob her of a gold chain and rings. The crime had created ripples of shock across the state.The police made their first arrest on Oct 11, 2024, with Kanojiya, a worker from Kadnagar in Undri. This was followed up with the arrest of Shoeb, a ragpicker from Adarshnagar in Mantarwadi near Phursungi. He was nabbed in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, on Oct 14, 2024. Shaikh has been identified as the ringleader of the group behind the crime.The third accused, Gosavi, a casual worker hailing from Bhavaninagar Sansar in Indapur taluka, was arrested on April 26, 2025. He was caught at the old bus terminus in Walchandnagar near Akluj, while he was trying to catch a bus.The three accused are being tried for offences under sections 70(1) (gangrape), 115(2) (causing hurt), 126(2) (wrongful restraint), 309(6) (robbery), 352 (intentional insult), 351 (2) and (3) (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, besides provisions under the Arms Act and the Maharashtra Police Act.
