Train shooting: GRP probe team recreates crime scene in Jaipur-Mumbai Superfast Express
Mumbai (PTI): A Government Railway Police (GRP) team has recreated the crime scene inside the Jaipur-Mumbai Central Superfast Express at a car shed here as part of their probe into the July 31 shooting by an RPF constable who allegedly killed his senior officer and three passengers in the moving train, an official said.
The GRP team from the Borivali Railway Police Station on Tuesday went to Mumbai Central car shed where the train was parked and visited coaches where the killings had taken place, he said.
Prime witnesses and senior Railway Protection Force (RPF) officers were present when the crime scene was recreated, the official said.
However, RPF constable Chetan Singh (34), accused of gunning down his senior, Assistant Sub-Inspector Tikaram Meena, and three passengers travelling in different bogies of the Mumbai-bound train with his automatic weapon, was not present during the exercise, he said.
Singh is currently in the GRP's custody.
While seeking extension of Singh's police remand, the GRP in their application on Monday told the court they wanted to take the accused to the crime spot.
The probe team has obtained CCTV footage from the train and is examining it to get more information about the gruesome killings, the motive of which was not yet clear.
The team has also recorded statements of eyewitnesses, the official said.
The shooting took place in the wee hours of July 31 when the Jaipur-Mumbai Central Superfast Express was near Palghar station on the outskirts of the financial capital.
Singh was nabbed with his weapon later while trying to flee after passengers pulled the chain of the train which stopped near Mira Road station (on the Mumbai suburban network).
The deceased passengers were identified as Abdul Kadarbhai Mohammed Hussain Bhanpurwala (48), a resident of Nalasopara in Palghar district, Asgar Abbas Sheikh (48), a native of Madhubani in Bihar, and Sayyad Saifuddin, originally from Bidar in Karnataka who had settled in Hyderabad.
The Railway Board has set up a five-member committee to separately probe the incident.
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TMC will be voted back to power in Bengal: Tejashwi Yadav
Patna (PTI): Leader of Opposition in Bihar assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, on Tuesday exuded confidence that the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC will again be voted to power in West Bengal.
Yadav returned to Patna after a four-day poll campaign in West Bengal.
“The atmosphere there is euphoric and people want to bring Didi (Mamata Banerjee) back to power. I am fully confident that the TMC will win the election,” he told reporters here.
He said that a large number of people from Bihar living in West Bengal share a lot of love and respect for Mamata Banerjee.
Responding to BJP’s allegations that the TMC had “ruined” West Bengal during its tenure, the RJD leader said the “entire country has been ruined under the Narendra Modi-led government”.
“I want to ask one question to Modi ji – you have been prime minister for more than 11 years, tell me one thing you have done for Bengal,” Yadav said.
The first phase of elections to the 294-member West Bengal assembly was held on April 23, while the second phase will take place on April 29. Votes will be counted on May 4.
