Rlys penalised for harassment to B’garh man
A railway passenger travelling with his family was fined Rs 1,000 by TTI for stating the wrong age in the ticket, but there is no provision in the Indian Railways Act to impose a penalty on a passenger due to wrong age in the ticket.
According to the details of the incident, Pradeep Kumar Mohapatra, a lawyer from Talipada under Ward No. 4 of Bargarh along with 5 other family members had booked an advance ticket on December 15, 2016 to go to Chennai in Tata-Alleppey Express on January 24, 2017. His age was mentioned in the ticket as 48 instead of 54. Then a TTI namely SVBSV Ganesh penalized Rs 1,000 to Mahapatra for wrong mentioning of age near Visakhapatnam station.
