chennai police on tuesday arrested a 35yearold lorry owner who they found posed as a policeman and filmed a woman in manali before threatening and raping her investigators later found he had raped more than four dozen women mainly in puzhal and red hills areas after trapping them in similar fashionpolice seized a mobile containing many videos and photos of women from the accused identified as pitchaimani of tondiarpet a court later sent pitchaimani a married man with two daughters to jail steps are on to detain him under the goondas act an officer said he had been nabbed by the red hills police for a similar offence in 2016in the latest case a woman approached the puzhal police saying a man dressed like a policeman had snatched 15000 and her mobile phone when she was with her boyfriend police registered a case and scanned footage from a cctv camera at the spot they found a man identified as the complainants boyfriend going away and the woman left behind the victim then confessed that pitchaimani had showed videos and photos of her with her boyfriend and took her to a secluded place on his bike after raping her he snatched her phone and cash the officer said quoting from the complaintafter combing the area for more than two days a special team nabbed pitchaimani on tuesday in a statement he admitted to committing similar crimes in the past few areas the man who operates four tanker lorries in the city roamed around on a twowheeler clad in a khakhi shirt and trousers looking for young couples in unlit places particularly in areas like red hills he also had a police haircut an officer said he secretly filmed them before confronting them as he was always in police clothing the victims and their partners believed him the officer said another officer said pitchaimani always made sure that his victims were either unmarried couples or were into an extramarital affair before striking he would promise to register a case and make life difficult for them unless the woman submitted the officer added