TTE suspended for ‘assaulting’ woman on train

Agencies / May 18, 2024, 05:07 IST

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TTE suspended for ‘assaulting’ woman on train

Guwahati/Agartala: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has suspended a Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) who allegedly assaulted a woman passenger on a train on Tuesday, railway sources said on Thursday.
The sources said that the woman passenger was travelling from New Haflong (Assam) to Agartala on board the express train and the incident occurred when the accused TTE asked her for the ticket.

A purported video of the incident, recorded by a fellow passenger, went viral on social media.
It shows the woman passenger, waving her hands and engaged in a heated discussion with the TTE, who was seen shoving her. Sources said that the woman passenger did not lodge any formal complaint with the railway police or any authority concerned about the incident. AGENCIES

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