The accused is taken by the police to reconstruct the crime scene.
New Delhi/Ahmedabad:
The arrest of a person on fees of raping and killing a 19-year-old lady in Gujarat has opened up a can of worms, with cops saying that the accused dedicated not less than 4 different murders, totally on trains, throughout states in lower than a month.
Rahul Karamveer Jat, a resident of Rohtak in Haryana, was arrested from Vapi Railway Station in Gujarat’s Valsad on November 24, after a large search involving police models from varied states and scanning of not less than 2,000 CCTV cameras throughout a number of Gujarat districts.
Police mentioned the accused, a Class 5 dropout who has confessed to the crimes, looted and murdered individuals each time he discovered them alone, and raped ladies, particularly within the coaches meant for differently-abled passengers. Getting a maintain of him was robust since he saved shifting and principally slept at railway platforms and in trains.
“He was arrested on Sunday evening in a joint operation carried out by native and railway police. Jat travelled extensively and saved altering his location. We have discovered that he’s concerned in not less than 4 circumstances of loot and homicide on trains and at railway stations in Karnataka, West Bengal, Telangana and Maharashtra,” Superintendent of Police (SP) Karanraj Vaghela mentioned.
The skeletons tumbled out of the cabinet when the Valsad district police launched a probe into the homicide of the girl, whose physique was discovered close to the tracks near Udvada railway station on November 14. A forensic examination revealed that the girl was raped.
Police mentioned as a number of search groups have been fashioned, the accused was noticed on CCTVs on the railway station, carrying the identical garments that have been recovered from the world the place the girl’s physique was discovered. The CCTV footage additionally confirmed Jat relishing some meals, after committing the chilling crime, on the railway station.
The accused was noticed at Udvada railway station after he raped and murdered the girl.
“He had come right here to gather his wage from a resort the place he labored, and raped and killed the girl throughout his go to. The lady was returning dwelling from tuition when the incident occurred,” the SP mentioned.
Police mentioned Jat dedicated 4 different murders earlier than and after raping and killing the girl.
Only a day earlier than his arrest, the accused looted and murdered a girl on a prepare close to Secunderabad railway station in Telangana. In October, he raped and murdered a girl on a prepare close to Solapur railway station in Maharashtra. Later, he stabbed to dying an aged man on Katihar specific prepare close to Howrah railway station in West Bengal. He can also be accused of murdering a prepare passenger in Mulki in Karnataka.
As the accused’s {photograph} was mapped with the nationwide database of prisoners, police learnt that he was launched from Jodhpur central jail earlier this yr, the place he was lodged in reference to a theft case.
Jat’s father has handed away and his household has disowned him, police mentioned. After quitting research in Class 5, he engaged in varied acts of loot in Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. There are 13 first info reviews (FIRs) registered in opposition to him.
(With inputs from Mahendra Prasad)