The ticket examiner was arrested and produced before the court (Representational)
Kottayam, Kerala:
A railway ticket examiner was arrested from Kottayam railway station on Tuesday for allegedly misbehaving with a woman in a passenger train going from Nilambur to Kochuveli in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram district.
The incident took place on Tuesday morning after the Nilambur-Kochuveli Rajya Rani Express passed through Aluva station, a Kottayam Railway Police official said.
As per the woman’s complaint, she had a RAC ticket and was sitting in the S-4 coach of the train, when the Ticket Examiner (TE) came and sat beside her and held her hand tightly despite her protests.
The official said he immediately called the railway control room in Thiruvananthapuram, which informed the RPF personnel on board the train to ascertain what had happened.
RPF personnel talked to him and 35-year-old TE and then took him into custody. Thereafter, he was medically examined which revealed that he had consumed alcohol, the officer said.
He said that on the basis of the RPF personnel and medical reports and the statement given by the woman, TE was arrested and produced before the court, which sent her to 14-day judicial custody.
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