Mumbai: The Government Railway Police (GRP) have made little headway into the apparent suicide by Dalvir Singh, a Railway Protection Force (RPF) constable who shot himself on the Gujarat Mail late on Saturday. The train was at Mumbai Central station when the incident took place.
A senior RPF officer said Singh, 25, had been posted with the Mumbai RPF since 2016 and was headed to Gujarat to join duty there. He added that Singh was a reserve personnel and was staying in an RPF barrack in Khar. Singh, he said, was the second of four siblings and was the only brother.
The RPF’s investigating officer in the case, who declined to be named, said Singh had received 16 calls from a single number that day. “Of these, 11 calls went unanswered while Singh attended the other five. Also, his elder sister called him 28 times on February 28, of which he answered only 10 calls. We are also talking to his colleagues in the RPF and relatives.”
His parents and relatives told the railway police that Singh was to be married soon and leave for the same had already been sanctioned. “We are also investigating the marriage angle. He was unhappy with it and wanted to marry another girl; it seems he was being pressurised by his family and took the extreme step,” an officer said.
In January, Singh had visited his hometown in Haryana, where the engagement was held. “We have taken his mobile phone and other belongings. We are trying to call the number from which he received multiple calls on the day of the incident, but they have not been answered,” Datratray Pawar, Senior Inspector, GRP (Mumbai Central), said. Singh’s body was sent to New Delhi by the Shatabdi Express on Sunday at 5.40 p.m., from where it will be sent to his home in Haryana.
