Chetan Singh case: Muslim victim recounts hate rants, abuse by RPF train killer in 2016, says report

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Hindustan Times quoted the victim Wahid Khan as saying. Khan, after being abused with constant communal overtones, had filed a complaint against Singh. Though the inquiry was launched after a year following the first complaint, after which Chetan Singh was eventually transferred to Bhavnagar in Gujarat.

In 2016, when Singh was posted in the dog squad of RPF, Khan met him as his auto was usually parked near the “maal godaam"(luggage warehouse) of the Ujjain railway station. “One day, in the middle of 2016, Chetan saw me and asked me my name. There was a viciousness to him but he said nothing at that time.

But from then, whenever he saw me, he would get me to take him to far off places for what he called ‘work’. He barely ever paid. Then he started to ask me to pick up things from his house and drop them.

Initially, I said nothing, but I began to realize he was targeting me," HT quoted Khan as saying. ALSO READ: Train firing: RFP constable Chetan Singh forced woman in burqa to say ‘Jai Mata Di’, says report In early February 2017, when Khan was leaving the railway station to pick up his daughter, Singh jumped into his auto. “I told him I could not go with him because my daughter was waiting.

He started abusing me and calling me a ‘traitor’ and a ‘terrorist’. He was full of hatred and went on a rant. He said Muslims are terrorists and their real place is in jail.

It disturbed me, but there was little I could do," Khan said. Things took a wrong turn between the two when on February 17, 2017, when a railway guard known to Khan asked him to pick up his spectacles from a shop in the city and drop them off at the railway station. Khan bought a platform ticket, delivered the glasses, and was on his way out, but then Chetan