Man impersonates teacher using voice-changing app, rapes 7 tribal girls in MP's Sidhi

Updated on May 25, 2024, 12:14 IST

At least seven tribal girls were raped between January and May this year by a man who called them using a “voice-changing app” posing as a teacher and then persuaded them to come to deserted areas in Sidhi district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh under the pretext of discussing their scholarships.

MP man rapes 7 tribal girls

At least seven tribal girls were raped between January and May this year by a person who called them posing as a teacher and using a “voice-changing app” and then persuaded them to come to deserted areas under the pretext of discussing their scholarships. Sidhi District from Madhya Pradesh.

“So far, four cases have been filed against the accused and there are five survivors in these four cases. One girl went to him with a minor and the accused raped the minor too. But during interrogation, the accused admitted to having raped seven girls so far, the details of the other two survivors are being verified,” SP SidhiRavindra Verma told TOI.

“The number of victims could be even higher. So far, all survivors have reported rape, but not a single survivor has reported gang rape. We have also arrested his two accomplices. The investigation is still ongoing,” he said.

Verma further said that all these incidents have been taking place since January this year and no survivor has reported them. “Around 5-6 days ago, a survivor reported this to the police. When we did the technical analysis, we found that the accused was interacting with other girls in a similar pattern. The main accused Brajesh Prajapati was arrested and produced in court the same evening and we sought his remand. His first remand ended on Friday and we have remanded him in judicial custody for three days,” said Verma.

Verma further said that “how he got the phone numbers of the girls is still being investigated. So far, it has emerged that the accused used to call the students of a particular college posing as a teacher and asking them to come to a particular place to check their scholarships or for some similar reason. The unsuspecting survivors reached there thinking that a teacher had asked them. There, he introduced them as the teacher’s son and took them on his motorcycle on the pretext of meeting the teacher. He then took her to an abandoned house on his farmland and raped her,” Verma told TOI.

He said that the accused is not currently doing any work and that all the survivors so far belong to the caste communities.

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