Mumbai: Railway Passenger Beats Up Ticket Checker With Hockey Stick Over Fine, Second Incident In A Month

The ticket checker, Vijay Kumar Pandit, was allegedly attacked with a hockey stick. He sustained injuries to his ears in the attack.

A 29-year-old ticket checker posted in Western Railway was beaten by a commuter at Nala Sopara station for imposing fine.

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A 29-year-old ticket checker posted in Western Railway was beaten by a commuter at a railway station in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The incident occurred on Thursday at the Nala Sopara railway station when the ticket checker imposed fine on him.

The ticket checker, Vijay Kumar Pandit, was allegedly attacked with a hockey stick. According to an official from Vasai of the Government Railway Police (GRP), the ticket checker sustained injuries to his ears in the attack.

A case has been registered based on Pandit's statement against the unidentified railway passenger under sections 121(2) (voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to deter public servant from his duty) and 132 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita.

A probe is underway to identify and locate the attacker.

This is the second such case in the Western Railway where a ticket-checking railway employee has been assaulted by a passenger.

Last month, a  few local train passengers in Mumbai assaulted a Travelling Ticket Examiner after he imposed fine on them for travelling without a valid ticket. 

The incident took place on August 15 on a local train from Churchgate to Virar. The three accused were travelling in AC local but had bought first-class tickets.

When Chief Ticket Inspector Jasbir Singh asked one of the passengers Ankit Bhosale to pay the fine, he got into a heated argument with the ticket checker.

The argument quickly escalated into a violent clash and Bhosale with other passengers engaged in a scuffle with Singh. The TTE sustained injuries and even lost Rs 1,500 that he had collected as fine from other passengers.

Bhosale was asked to deboard at Borivali station due to the incident but he refused. He was then removed by the Railway Protection Force at Nalasopara station. The video of the incident had gone viral on social media.