Mumbai: Women beat up TC at Nahur station after ‘ticketless’ commuter falls

The women beating up the ticket checker at Nahur station

A ticket checker was beaten up by women at Nahur station on Tuesday after an alleged ticketless commuter fell down from a staircase while running, and they blamed him for this. While the ticket checker, in his statement, said that he was standing elsewhere and the commuter on spotting him on the bridge from afar tried to flee, the mob of women, in no mood to listen, bashed him up.

However, sources said the ticket checker and RPF personnel on duty tried to chase the ticketless traveller and in the melee he fell down. However, there is no CCTV on the bridge to verify what actually happened. The railways have filed cases of assault on a public servant against the women seen in the footage. "We have registered cases against those who manhandled the ticket checker," Central Railway Chief Public Relations Officer Shivaji Sutar said. "As seen from platform CCTV, the person ran away and fell due to a push by some other person. Not because of the TC," a Central Railway spokesperson said later.

"Today at around 9 am, we (CSMT court batch) were checking tickets at Nahur station at Kalyan end foot overbridge. Around 9.15 am, a passenger whom we did not even check, ran away on seeing us and fell down the last three to four steps of the bridge. I was not aware of this then as I was busy making receipts for another passenger. Suddenly some women attacked me saying I was responsible for that accident," said ticket checker Sandeep Chitale.