New Delhi, India – Three days after Asgar Abbas Ali was shot dead inside a train together with three others by a railway guard, his brother, Mohammad Sanaullah, continues to be unable to course of the loss.

Since Monday’s killings, neighbours have been gathering at their home in Bisfi village of japanese Bihar state’s Madhubani district to indicate solidarity with the bereaved household.

“What had my brother done to deserve this? He was a simple man and never troubled anyone,” stated Sanaullah, 35, his voice breaking.

Nearly 1,200km (750 miles) from his residence, Ali, 48, had boarded a practice for Mumbai, the sprawling capital of Maharashtra state, on the night of July 30 from Jaipur, the capital of neighbouring Rajasthan state in western India.

The subsequent morning, when the practice reached Palghar, a city exterior Mumbai, a 33-year-old armed guard from the Railway Protection Force (RPF) went on a rampage, allegedly killing three Muslim males and his Hindu colleague.

According to witnesses, the accused, RPF constable Chetan Singh, first fired his service rifle at his senior colleague, RPF Assistant Sub-Inspector Tikaram Meena. Then he shot two passengers, Abdul Kadar Mohammed Hussain Bhanpurwala and Syed Saifuddin, within the practice’s pantry coach.

Ali was the final goal, whom he shot lifeless in one other compartment.

After his fourth homicide, Singh, in response to a chilling video that confirmed a bleeding Ali mendacity subsequent to his ft, hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh state’s hardline chief minister, Yogi Adityanath – each members of the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

“If you want to live and vote in Hindustan [India], I am telling you, it’s only Modi and Yogi,” Singh was heard saying within the video verified by Al Jazeera.

The RPF guard then tried to cease the practice and get off close to Borivali on the outskirts of Mumbai the place he was apprehended by the police, who’ve charged him with a number of murders, endangering security of passengers, misuse of weapon amongst different costs, in response to the police report seen by Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile, the federal railway ministry has introduced compensation of 1,000,000 Indian rupees ($12,000) to the households of every of the three victims.

‘An act of terror’

The relations of the Muslim males, activists and opposition politicians have referred to as the incident “a hate crime” and “an act of terror”.

Mohammad Ziauddin, the village head in Bisfi, informed Al Jazeera the incident was a results of the hate “being spread by the media and people associated with the BJP and the RSS”.

RSS refers back to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (or National Association of Volunteers), the ruling BJP’s far-right ideological mentor that goals to create an ethnic Hindu state on this planet’s most populous nation.

India is residence to greater than 200 million Muslims – the third largest focus of the group after Indonesia and Pakistan.

“We have seen the video. It is obvious that this man was driven by hatred for Muslims. We lost our brother to hate,” Ziauddin, 55, informed Al Jazeera.

He stated he had recognized Ali since their childhood and described him as a “polite man”.

Ali, a father of three daughters and a son, bought bangles in Jaipur, the place he had shifted final yr looking for a greater livelihood.

He had additionally spent about 15 years of his life in numerous components of Maharashtra doing odd jobs, together with main prayers as an imam at a mosque in Pune, stated his brother Sanaullah.

“He was a hardworking and honest man, but it did not yield him much,” stated Kaleem-ud-Din, his brother-in-law.

According to Sanaullah, Ali’s bangle enterprise was struggling and he was exploring new avenues. He was on his method to Mumbai to hitch a mosque within the metropolis as a muezzin, who proclaims the decision to prayer.

Village head Ziauddin demanded compensation for Ali’s household, saying the federal government ought to deal with the training of his youngsters and supply a job to a member of the family.

‘Can’t consider needed to bury my pal’

Unlike Ali, the situation of Kadar, a 64-year-old Muslim from the Bohra Shia sect, was comparatively higher.

Kadar had been residing together with his household in Nalasopara, about 58km (36 miles) from Mumbai, for the final 25 years the place he ran a store promoting family merchandise.

Originally from Bhanpur within the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh the place he had gone to look at Muharram, Kadar boarded the identical practice in Bhawani Mandi, a city in Rajasthan state about 18km (11 miles) from Bhanpur.

Kadar’s childhood pal Lukman Bhanpurwala, who owns a motor storage in Nalasopara, described him as a “simple man who would never fight with anyone”.

He stated they have been shut associates and would meet almost each week regardless of their busy lives.

“I cannot believe I had to bury my friend in a grave. We were laughing together just last week,” Lukman informed Al Jazeera.

Kadar had studied until Twelfth grade earlier than he stop training and began incomes for his household. He is survived by his spouse, two sons, a daughter-in-law and a grandson.

“I don’t know what to say. I am devastated. My father worked hard to give us good education,” stated Kadar’s eldest son Hussain Kadar, 36, who works in Dubai.

‘Targeted for his beard’

Singh’s third Muslim sufferer, Saifuddin, 43, had large goals for his daughters, his brother Syed Younus informed Al Jazeera. “He wanted his daughters to become doctors.”

Singh, in response to media experiences, compelled Saifuddin at gunpoint to go away his seat and observe him to the pantry coach the place he shot him lifeless.

Saifuddin was returning to Mumbai from Ajmer, a city in Rajasthan well-known for the shrine of Twelfth-century Sufi saint, Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti.

From Mumbai, he was scheduled to board one other practice to Hyderabad, a big metropolis in southern India the place he ran a enterprise repairing cellphones for the final 12 years.

Originally from Bidar, a small city in neighbouring Karnataka state, Saifuddin is survived by his spouse, Anjum Shaheen, and three daughters, the youngest of whom is simply six months previous.

The households of all three victims are demanding strict punishment for Singh.

“The man in uniform who killed our brother did not know him personally. He targeted him for his beard. He was filled with hate for Muslims,” Saifullah’s brother Younus informed Al Jazeera.

Asaduddin Owaisi, a distinguished Muslim parliamentarian from Hyderabad who stated his social gathering is helping Saifuddin’s household, condemned Prime Minister Modi for sustaining silence on the killings.

“You have not even condemned the attack; forget expressing sympathies for their families. Is it because the terrorist [accused Singh] asked people to vote for you?” Owaisi requested on Twitter.