The ‘serial killer’, accused in the rape and murder of a 19-year-old student of Valsad and several other murder cases, was remanded to judicial custody by a local court in Gujarat on Wednesday after his police remand was over. Officials said. Rahul Jat, a resident of Rohtak in Haryana, was produced in a Pardi court by the Valsad police.
Most of his targets were train passengers. Valsad District Superintendent of Police Dr Karanraj Vaghela said, “The accused was constantly traveling in trains in coaches meant for disabled persons. The accused, who is in our custody, has confessed to killing at least six passengers, both male and female. The first murder case against Rahul Jat was filed on October 20 But he continued his killing spree, officials said Davoi), cases were registered in West Bengal, Telangana and Gujarat. Apart from the two murders in Gujarat, he allegedly targeted the rest of the victims in trains.
During the investigation, the police discovered that Jat, after being released on bail from Jodhpur Jai in Rajasthan, ‘traveled in a truck to Gujarat and from here again got in a truck to Visakhapatnam. He was dropped by the driver,” Vaghela said. He is accused of killing a partially blind man in Davoi in June. Jats were constantly traveling targeting people. He allegedly killed a 19-year-old student in Valsad at a mango orchard in November, authorities found.
Vaghela said that during his tenure at the Rajkot Police Commissionerate, as Deputy Commissioner, he had handled a case in 2016 involving the same accused, Hitesh Ramawat, in three separate murder cases. He is serving a life sentence in a case. “He robbed people and stoned them to death repeatedly,” Vaghela said.
Meanwhile, the West Bengal Police is trying to detain a Jat who was involved in the murder of musician Sumitra Chatterjee on November 19.