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Unparseable date: "Fri Oct 10 23:11:07 IST 2014" (at offset 20)

I have created this funtion to parse date but this gives exception : Unparseable date: "Fri Oct 10 23:11:07 IST 2014" (at offset 20) . Please help as I am not able to figure out whats wrong with this code. 

public Date parseDate() {
    String strDate ="Fri Oct 10 23:11:29 IST 2014";
    String newPattern = "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss Z yyyy";
    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(newPattern);
    try {
        Date date = formatter.parse(strDate);
        return date;
    } catch (java.text.ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return null;
}
Solution 
  •  SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(newPattern);
 formatter.setLenient(true);

    //setting the formatter to be lenient solves the problem

    Thanks folks for helping....