The Madhya Pradesh are probing allegations that no less than seven tribal women in Sidhi district have been lured and raped by a 30-year-old man, who used a voice-changing app to pose as a lady school professor providing them scholarships.
“We now have arrested the accused, Brajesh Prajapati, and two different males, who assisted him by offering the cellphone variety of the primary sufferer. The accused used a voice-changing software that’s out there on the app retailer and used that to alter his voice to a feminine school professor to focus on these ladies. All of the victims are from the tribal group and belong to financially weak households,” Sidhi Superintendent of Police Ravindra Verma instructed The Indian Express.
The police have mentioned that 4 ladies have come ahead thus far, and the accused has confessed to raping three others. “In a single case, the accused raped a lady and her minor sister by luring them right into a forested area. The POCSO Act has additionally been invoked in opposition to him,” Verma mentioned.
The police have sought Prajapati’s remand after his remand expired on Friday.
As per the police, the accused is a labourer who learnt the best way to use the applying on YouTube. He procured the cellphone variety of the primary sufferer with the assistance of the co-accused, Rahul Prajapati and Sandeep Prajapati, police mentioned.
“He referred to as that lady to an remoted spot promising to supply her scholarship cash. Posing as a feminine school professor, he instructed the girl that her son would meet her and escort her to their residence, the place the scholarship can be disbursed. The accused then took the sufferer to an remoted spot in a forested space, the place he raped her at an deserted jhopri belonging to his household,” Verma mentioned.
Police mentioned he would additionally rob the ladies’s telephones and threaten them with dire penalties. The accused would search for contacts of different ladies on their telephones. “He would randomly name cellphone numbers and converse to ladies 10-20 instances a day. He would provide scholarships, and in case they weren’t going to varsity, he would provide authorities schemes to lure them to the forest,” the officer mentioned.
The police have claimed that the incidents have been happening since January, and the police took motion after two survivors approached them. “In a single case, a survivor managed to flee whereas she was being taken on his bike. On the identical time, the primary survivor additionally contacted us. After arresting the accused, we analysed his name element data and seemed on the cellphone numbers which he referred to as repeatedly, which helped us hint the opposite victims,” the officer mentioned.