In the viral video of the incident, the constable can be heard hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI — All three passengers shot dead by Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable Chetan Singh early Monday near Palghar railway station in Maharashtra, were Muslims with beards.
Singh used his automatic weapon to shoot at the three Muslims who were on board the Jaipur-Mumbai Central Express train.
In the viral video of the incident, the constable can be heard hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
“Agar Hindustan me rehna hai, toh mai kehta hun, Modi aur Yogi, ye do hain, aur aapke Thakrey (If you want to live in India, then I say, there are Modi and Yogi, these two, and your Thackeray),” he can be heard saying in the video.
According to media reports, the killed Muslims were Abdul Kaderbhai Bhanpurwala (60), Asghar Abbas Ali (35) and Sadar Mohammed Hussain. Besides the three Muslims, Singh also shot dead Assistant Sub-Inspector Tikaram Meena (57).
Singh used AKM, a modified version of the AK-47. He fired rounds in coaches B5, S6, and the pantry car, resulting in the deaths of three Muslims. and ASI Tikaram also. In total, twelve rounds were fired during the incident.
Mohammed Zubair, fact-checker and co-founder @AltNews tweeted the sequence of the tragic event on the train with pictures.
Pic 1. He (Singh) went to different three coaches (B-5, PC, S-6) where he shot his senior and three bearded Muslim passengers.
Pic 2: At coach B-5, Chetan Singh armed with an automatic assault rifle shot from point-blank range at Abdul Kaderbhai Bhanpurwala (60) and his senior ASI Tikaram Meena (57).
Pic 3: After killing these two men in coach B-5, Chetan Singh crossed four other coaches from B-4 to B-1, leaving passengers in these compartments untouched before entering the pantry car where he shot dead a passenger who was identified as Sadar Mohammed Hussain.
Pic 4: From the pantry car, Chetan Singh then crossed two other coaches, S-8 and S-7, again leaving the passengers in them unscathed, before stopping at S-6. There, he trained his gun on another passenger Asghar Abbas Ali (35) and shot him dead.
After shooting Asghar Abbas Ali at S-6, Chetan Singh began a hate-filled rant against Muslims. “… Pakistan se operate hue ye, aur media yehi coverage dikha rahi hai, unko sab pata chal raha hai ye kya kar rahe hain… Agar vote dena hai, agar Hindustan mein rehna hai to mai kehta hoon Modi aur Yogi, ye do hain.”
