India, Oct. 8 -- Vikas Jena, a railway guard, testified on Tuesday in the ongoing trial of former Railway Police Force (RPF) constable Chetan Singh Chaudhary, accused of shooting dead his senior and three identifiably Muslim passengers on board the Jaipur-Mumbai Superfast Express in the early hours of July 31, 2023. Chaudhary has since been dismissed and is lodged in Thane Central Jail, from where he was produced in court via video conferencing.

The 33-year-old Jena, the tenth witness to testify in the fast-moving trial at the Dindoshi sessions court, was on duty as Senior Passenger Train Manager on the Jaipur-Mumbai Superfast Express that night. He boarded the train at Baroda around 1.12am, he told the court. When the train reached Sura...