Today I had faced with a kind of discrimination with the railway police. My wife was leaving home and by the time I reached station it was just 5 minutes away for the train to leave. I went to the platform ticket counter and there was a huge queue there. Hence there was no other option but to ask her of the chief ticketing officer. I went upto his room and explained the emergency to him and he agreed me to enter the platform provided I take a ticket on my return. I ensured that my wife has boarded the train and while I was returning another office caught me for not having the ticket. I explained all this in detail but she denied to let me go. Meanwhile, there were 4 people also caught by the same officer for not having the ticket and once she found me in, she just let those people leave and I was asked to stand there and pay the fine. I even went to the officer's room but the same person who had given me the consent to go in denied to identify me. I wouldn't mind paying the fine, but there was an utter discrimination against me while letting lose some people who has committed the same offense. Moreover, the queue at the counter was so enormous that my wife would not have made to the train incase I stood there to buy the ticket. Anyways, I hope that there would be some more better and effecient mechanism in the near future.
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