Man uses app to pose as woman college teacher, rapes 7 students

While Prajapati confessed to raping seven girls, four girls have come forward to lodge complaints, IG Sikarwar said.

A 30-year-old man has been arrested in Madhya Pradesh's Sidhi district for allegedly raping at least seven girls after posing as a woman college teacher and calling them in connection with scholarship funds, police said on Saturday.

Most of the survivors belong to tribal communities.

Brajesh Prajapati, the accused, used a voice-changing app to sound like a woman while talking to his potential victims on phone, police said.

While Prajapati confessed to raping seven girls, four girls have come forward to lodge complaints, IG Sikarwar said.

He could have raped more girls and probe was on, the official said.

His associates Lavkush Prajapati, Rahul Prajapati and Sandeep Prajapati were also arrested and 16 mobile phones were recovered from them. One of them was a college student and got numbers of girls from a college WhatsApp group, the IG said.

Their exact roles in the crimes were yet to be ascertained.