I would like toآ highlight some un-acceptable behavoiur that Iآ faced atآ Nizammudin railway station on 16th evening.
I am an NRIآ, based in Dubai and had travelled toآ Delhiآ to meetآ myآ Mother and other relatives.آ
My mother is a senior citizen and resides in Nagpur.آ She had come from Nagpurآ toآ Delhi.
She was returning on 16th by Rajdhani from Nizammuding station toآ Nagpur and I had gone to drop her.
When I reached the station, to my dismay the line for platform ticket was very long.آ I still stood in the que and was told that there was no Platform ticket till 30th June.
I went into the station to drop her to the train.آ On my way back there was a person standing at the exit and asked me for the ticket.آ I told him that the person at the counter said there was no platform ticket .آ The person at the exit said it is not hisآ problem and I must pay fine.
Since I had no choise, I accepted and he asked me for INR 255.آ I gave it to him.آ The receipt he gave me was forآ excess fare.آ I have the receipt with me.آ When I asked him why he was not giving me a fine receipt he said he was trying to help me!!!
When I insisted I need a fine receipt, he told the three policement standing there (and watching the whole incident )آ to arrest me.آ He said the magistrate will come after two or three days and then he will decide.
I had no choice but to take the excess fare receipt and come out quitely.
This is a shameful incidentآ and casts a very poor image of the railway ministry.آ آ
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