more-in The Neelankarai police have arrested a 37-year-old cab driver on charges of raping several women whom he lured with gifts while they were waiting alone in bus stops and other public places. Police said S. Suresh Kumar, a call-taxi driver of Kannagi Nagar, was tracked down after a woman registered a complaint with the police alleging that she was sexually assaulted inside a car near Neelankarai on Sunday afternoon. Inspector Natarajan nabbed the accused within hours as the victim gave them the vehicle’s registration number. A police officer said the modus operandi of the suspect was that he would target lone women whom he identified while driving around the city. He would approach the women, claiming that his relatives who were performing special pujas wanted young women to attend it, so that they can give away silk saris and gold. Women who fell for his story would get into his car, upon which he would lock the doors and drive them to an undisclosed location. There, he sexually assaulted the victims at knife point and pushed them out, after robbing them of their valuables. The police said Suresh was a serial offender and he had confessed to sexually assaulting a few other women in Thoraipakkam and Tiruvanmiyur areas also.

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