The suspected serial killer from Haryana, accused of killing five persons, including a tabla player from Bengal last month, had allegedly killed another man in June, the Gujarat police said on Tuesday.

His sixth victim was a visually impaired man who was strangled for his money in Vadodara district of Gujarat. His body was found near a station.

“While interrogating Rahul Karamveer Jat, the police came to know about the sixth victim,” Karanraj Vaghela, superintendent of police, Valsad district, Gujarat, told The Telegraph on Tuesday.

Jat’s sixth victim was visibly impaired, who he had met on a train, the officer said.

“They were travelling towards Dabhoi (in Gujarat). He (Jat) befriended the victim and made him get off the train three stations after Pratapnagar railway station. The victim was strangled to death with a steel chain. After the murder, Jat took his money. The motive was robbery,” Vaghela said.

Jat, 29, a truck driver, had been accused of committing at least five murders till now. This was the sixth murder with which he has been linked.

“His statements during interrogation match the background of the murder committed on June 8 near Palaswada village in Dabhoi,” Vaghela said.

The Gujarat police had arrested the accused in connection with the rape and murder of a 19-year-old girl.

Almost simultaneously, the Bengal police tracked his location through the phone of Soumitra Chatterjee, the tabla player Jat had allegedly killed on the Down Katihar Express. Jat allegedly stole the phone after the murder.

Chatterjee’s body was found after the train arrived at Howrah station.

A senior officer of the railway police in Bengal said Jat would mostly travel on trains and in trucks.

“He was physically challenged and would travel free of cost in compartments for the disabled. He would also travel in trucks. He moved across the country without any particular pattern,” said Vaghela.

The Gujarat police said they have evidence of Jat’s involvement in rapes, murders and robberies in Gujarat, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

An officer checking Jat’s past locations said he was in Bengal for the first time when he allegedly killed the tabla player.