Man posing as professor raped seven tribal girls using voice-changing app and promised them scholarship | News from India

Police said four women have come forward so far and the accused has confessed to raping three more women. “In one case, the accused raped a woman and her minor sister by luring them to a forest area. The POCSO Act has also been invoked against him,” Verma said.

Police requested Prajapati’s remand after his custody expired on Friday.

According to police, the accused is a labourer who learned how to use the application on YouTube. With the help of co-accused Rahul Prajapati and Sandeep Prajapati, he obtained the phone number of the first victim, police said.

“He called the woman to a remote location and promised to give her a scholarship. He posed as a college professor and told the woman that her son would meet her and accompany her to her house where the scholarship would be paid. The accused then took the victim to a remote location in a forest area where he left her in a deserted Subscribe to belongs to his family,” said Verma.

Police said he also robbed the women of their cell phones and threatened them with dire consequences. The accused searched for contacts on other women’s cell phones. “He called random phone numbers and spoke to the women 10 to 20 times a day. He offered scholarships and in case they did not go to college, he offered them government programs to lure them into the forest,” the officer said.

Police claim that the incidents have been taking place since January and that police took action after two survivors approached them. “In one case, a survivor managed to escape while being taken on his bike. At the same time, the first survivor also contacted us. After we arrested the accused, we analysed his call records and looked at the phone numbers he had repeatedly called, which helped us trace the other victims,” ​​the officer said.