Pilibhit: A joint team of Gajraula police station, special weapons and tactics (SWAT) wing and the surveillance cell on Tuesday morning nabbed a serial rapist Anil Verma. Unlike Rahan Quraishi, a paedophile who was nabbed after he raped and molested 15 children in Navi Mumbai, the 25-year-old psycho serial rapist of village Pandari alias Bhooda Semnagar under Gajraula police station in Pilibhit district raped middle aged women. On February 16, the accused brutally killed a 40-year-old woman in his native village.The woman was his fifth victim whose half-naked dead body was recovered by her husband. The police had lodged an FIR under section 302 (murder) against unknown people following a complaint filed by the husband.At a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, the accused was paraded before the media by the superintendent of police, Manoj Kumar Sonkar.The police said that the accused had murdered a woman around 6:.30 pm on February 16, when she had gone to work in her field.The accused told police that he saw the woman head towards her agricultural field at around 5 pm when he was trying to protect his crop from stray cattle. He grabbed her and tried to rape her, however, when she resisted and scratched him on the face, he killed her. She also warned him that she would inform her family members about him.“This violent reaction of the woman made me hit her with a bludgeon. After she turned unconscious, I dragged her into the nearby sugarcane field and kept hitting her head tilll she died. I returned home after that”, he told the police and media persons.During his interrogation, he told the police that he used to prey on women aged between 35 and 50 years.SP Manoj Kumar Sonkar told media persons that prior to this incident, Verma had raped four other middle aged women in different villages under the same police station. He had earlier been booked in 2013 and sent to jail for 18 months in 2013. In the other cases, the victim had not filed a case as they feared that doing so would give them a bad name in the society that they lived in.

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