A railway ticket checker was robbed of cash worth over Rs 700 at knifepoint by two youths traveling in the Virar-Bharuch train on Tuesday. The police managed to arrest one of the robbers while the other is on the run.
According to sources in the railway police, Mustak Kazi and his colleague Rajesh Mandal, both ticket checkers, boarded the Virar (Mumbai)-Bharuch (Gujarat) MEMU train on Tuesday from Valsad in Gujarat.
While checking tickets in the first class passenger compartment, two youths showed general tickets. When Kazi asked them to pay a penalty amount, the duo beat him. One of the youths held Kazi at knifepoint and robbed cash worth Rs 760 and a mobile phone from him.
