India, Oct. 7 -- The 33-year-old accountant was a reluctant witness in the ongoing trial of former Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable Chetan Singh Chaudhary, accused of shooting dead his senior and three visibly Muslim passengers on board the Jaipur-Mumbai Superfast Express in the early hours of July 31, 2023.

He was so traumatised by what he had heard on the train that night that for a long time, he avoided long-distance train travel. When he did travel, he avoided using the washroom. On Monday though, the soft-spoken accountant managed to stick to his testimony at the Dindoshi Sessions Court despite defence counsel Jaywant Patil's relentless attempts to confuse him.

His examination in chief by public prosecutor Sudhir Sapkale co...