Uttar Pradesh: Drunk Passenger Urinates On Elderly Couple In Delhi-Bound Sampark Kranti Express

They were aboard the Sampark Kranti Express, which operates between Manikpur junction in Uttar Pradesh and Hazrat Nizamuddin in Delhi.

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An official stated on Friday that a 19-year-old youngster, reportedly under the influence of alcohol, "accidentally" discharged urinate on an elderly couple, news agency PTI reported. The Railway Police Force (RPF) apprehended Ritesh. They were aboard the Sampark Kranti Express, which operates between Manikpur junction in Uttar Pradesh and Hazrat Nizamuddin in Delhi.

Himanshu Shekhar Upadhyay, CPRO of North Central Railways, stated that senior citizen GN Khare and his wife were on adjacent bottom berths in the train's B3 carriage.    

Ritesh, who was in the same compartment, "accidentally" released urine while walking unsteadily, reportedly under the influence of booze, according to Upadhyay, and the pee drops fell on the pair.

The pair, who were travelling from Harpalpur, Madhya Pradesh, to Hazrat Nizamuddin, raised an alarm, and the travelling ticket examiner (TTE) notified the Jhansi Railway control room.

When the train arrived in Jhansi, the RPF deboarded Ritesh and filed a complaint against him, according to North Central Railways' PRO Manoj Singh.

According to R Kaushik, RPF in-charge in Jhansi, the offender was freed after paying a fine in accordance with the terms of the Railways Act. 

Similarly in March this year, an off-duty travelling ticket examiner (TTE) was detained and fired by the Railways on Sunday for reportedly urinating on a woman passenger on the Akal Takht Express while inebriated, according to persons familiar with the situation.

According to the Lucknow Government Railway Police (GRP), the TTE, Munna Kumar of Begusarai, Bihar, was reportedly inebriated when he urinated on the head of a woman passenger resting on a lower bed of coach number A1.

Saharanpur was assigned to the TTE. According to the GRP, he was travelling as a fellow passenger and was not on duty at the time of the event.