The body of Syed Saifuddin, the 43-year-old man from Hyderabad who was shot by Railway Police Force (RPF) constable Chetan Singh aboard a moving train, reached Hamilapur near Bidar, Karnataka from Mumbai where it was laid to rest.
Accompanied by family and facilitated by All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leaders, including Nampally legislator Jaffar Hussain Meraj, Saifuddin’s body was brought from Bhagvati Hospital - Borivali and brought to a house in Hamilapur late on August 2 night. Anxious family, friends, and well-wishers from the village, Hyderabad and Bidar, had begun to gather at the house to bid farewell to the slain father of three.
It was a gloomy, and overcast Thursday morning in Hamilapur. Soon after the funeral prayers were performed, during which congregants stood shoulder-to-shoulder, heads bowed in front of the funeral palanquin sheathed in flowers around 8 a.m., Mr. Saifuddin’s body was taken to the lone graveyard in the area where he was buried.
