Overview
- Pune Rural Police, which filed the case Saturday, submitted a roughly 1,100–1,200 page chargesheet to a special court within 15 days.
- The filing cites statements from more than 50 witnesses, including three children, plus CCTV footage, forensic lab reports, and what prosecutors say is positive DNA and medical evidence.
- Investigators charged Bhimrao Prabhakar Kamble, 65, under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, India’s new criminal code, for kidnapping, rape, and murder, and also under strict provisions of the POCSO child-protection law; he remains in judicial custody.
- Officials say they will ask for an in-camera, day-to-day hearing in the special court, and the special public prosecutor and the chief minister have signaled they will seek the maximum punishment.
- The May 1 attack in Nasrapur led to protests, local shutdowns, and a Pune–Bengaluru highway blockade with calls for the death penalty, and police records note Kamble was earlier acquitted in two molestation cases from 1998 and 2015.