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Surat: Police say the 30-year-old alleged serial killer arrested in Valsad has confessed to a sixth undetected murder, carried out in the jurisdiction of Dabhoi police station in June. He allegedly killed a Nandurbar resident who was partially blind by strangling him and robbed him of cash and his mobile phone. Rahul alias Bholu Karmvir Ishwar Jat, who is from Rohtak in Haryana, was arrested on Nov 24 for his alleged involvement in the Nov 14 rape and murder of a 19-year-old college girl.
During his questioning, he confessed to another murder, that of Faiyaz Ahmad Shaikh. Jat is in police custody. "Jat told police that he boarded a train at Pratapnagar railway station in Vadodara and noticed Shaikh, who was partially blind, in the coach for disabled people.
He started talking to him and after winning his confidence, convinced Shaikh to get off the train when it halted at a station," a police officer said. He then took the victim to a secluded spot behind a building and strangled him with a chain. He stole Shaikh's phone and cash.
"A case for that killing had been registered on June 8 at Dabhoi police station. The details matched what Jat said," a police official said. A native of Mokhra Khas Pana Shyam village in Meham, Rohtak, Jat had earlier been arrested for 13 offences such as truck thefts and Arms Act violations.
He was arrested for truck theft in Rajasthan, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and for trafficking weapons. He has been found to be involved in five murders, between Oct 20 and Nov 24, in a killing spree spanning Gujarat, West Bengal, Telangana, Karnataka and Maharashtra. One of his victims was a disabled 60-year-old tabla teacher, Soumitra Chatterjee, on the Katihar Express.
He stabbed Chatterjee multiple times. This case was registered at Howrah GRP police station on Nov 19. Valsad police have recovered the knife used.
The other murders on trains he has confessed to include the murder of a man on the Bengaluru Murdeshwar train on Oct 25 in a coach for disabled people. He allegedly started an argument over the smoking of a bidi and robbed the victim after killing him. That offence was registered at Mulki police station in Mangalore.
An offence was registered on Nov 24 at Secunderabad GRP police station, after Jat allegedly strangled a woman in a train coach on the Mangalore Special Express train. He stole the woman's cash, luggage and phone. On Oct 20, he allegedly murdered and robbed a woman in a coach for disabled people on the Pune-Kanyakumari train near Solapur in Maharashtra.
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