Dismissed RPF cop: No knowledge of crime, suffering from ‘delusional disorder’

He was arrested on July 31 on charges of murdering three passengers and his senior, an assistant sub-inspector, while on duty on a Jaipur-Mumbai train.

Singh faces charges of murdering his senior Tikaram Meena, Asgar Ali Abbas, Abdul Kader Bhanpurwala and Syed Saifuddin.

He also faces a section pertaining to promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, based on the evidence by the police that the murders of the three passengers were communal in nature.

He is currently lodged in Akola jail and filed for bail for the first time through lawyers Amit Mishra and Pankaj Ghildiyal.

The plea claims that the FIR is false and that he has been falsely implicated, “although he is a respectable citizen of the society”.

“Whatever the crime incident occurred, the accused does not have any knowledge of the same, as he is suffering from extreme mental strokes and he is ‘partial mental patient/mentally challenged, who sometimes becomes whimsical and go into the loop of illusions, and probably the accused is suffering from delusional disorder,” the plea said.

The plea added references to other disorders including ‘white matter symptoms.

“…the judicial custody of the accused is not required because he is suffering from serious mental disorder and is in need of private psychiatric treatment,” the court said.

The court has directed the prosecution to file a reply.

While his family after the incident claimed that Singh was facing mental health issues, the RPF denied having any knowledge about it.