Syed Saifuddin, a 43-year-old man shot dead by Railway Police Force constable Chetan Singh on a running train near Palghar Station in Maharashtra on Monday, was from Hyderabad, and leaves behind a wife, and three daughters, the youngest of whom is only six months old. Saifuddin who works in mobile phone shop in Hyderabad was travelling from Ajmer to Mumbai.
Mr Saifuddin was a resident of A-Battery Line, a neighbourhood of densely packed two-storey houses, most of which share common walls in a narrow street under the shadow of a large mosque of the same name.
It was around 11.30 a.m. on Tuesday that Syed Yunusuddin, the victim’s younger brother, received a call. “They called me from Mumbai. They said Saifuddin was shot and is serious and wanted to know if I was coming. That is all they said,” he recalls, still coming to terms with the reality that his brother is no more. “Then, the local police came for enquiries. That is when we got to know that he had passed away.”
