India, July 31 -- It will be three years today since RPF constable Chetan Singh Choudhary shot dead his senior officer and three identifiably Muslim passengers on board the Jaipur Mumbai Superfast Express. Currently lodged in Thane Central Prison, Chaudhary is facing charges of murder and inciting communal enmity.

However, his trial, which began in the Dindoshi Sessions Court in November 2024, has been at a standstill for the last four months for lack of a judge in courtroom number 11. The last hearing took place on March 25; the judge hearing the matter was transferred on that very evening, and no one else has taken his place.

This isn't the first such transfer; the trial remained suspended between December 2025 and February 2026 for t...