India, Feb. 20 -- The Waliv police in Vasai East on Wednesday arrested a 26-year-old man from Gujarat for raping more than 15 women he met on matrimonial websites in the past two and a half years, with the false assurance of marriage. The police said Himanshu Yogeshbhai Panchal, a resident of Ahmedabad, had created a fake profile on the sites, posing as a Delhi crime branch officer attached to the cyber security division, to lure the women.

Panchal's fake profile also mentioned that he was from a rich family and was the owner of many properties. After contacting the young women, he would invite them to hotels in Vasai, Mumbai and Ahmedabad, where he would promise marriage, gift them fake diamond jewellery, and force them to establish phy...