India, Oct. 18 -- A 39-year-old chief bank manager testified at the Dindoshi sessions court on Friday how he saw former Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable Chetan Singh Chaudhary take away a bearded, kurta pyjama clad passenger at gunpoint on board the Jaipur Mumbai Superfast Express in the early hours of July 31, 2023. Chaudhary, on escort duty on the train that night, is on trial for killing four persons, among whom three were identifiably Muslim passengers and the fourth was his senior, assistant sub inspector Tikaram Meena.

"Anyone could see that he was Muslim," the bank manager told the court as he described Syed Saifuddin, the passenger whom Chaudhary woke up from the middle berth in coach B2. The witness did not know Saifuddi...