Alert passenger helps railway officials nab impostor TTE
08:28PM Fri 8 Jan, 2016
MANGALURU: A person acting as ticket examiner in train 22609 Mangaluru - Coimbatore Inter City Express on Wednesday aroused suspicion among the passengers. It was Shafi, passenger from Kozhikode who alerted the Railway authorities about this. The suspect did not have any identity card or uniform of the ticket checking staff. The commercial control unit at Palakkad conveyed instructions to apprehend the suspect when the train arrive at Kanhangad station.
Accordingly, railway protection force (RPF) under directions of assistant security commissioner (RPF) Palakkad arrested Niyas V P, from Pappinissery, Kannur for impersonating as railway ticket checking staff with help of ticket checking squad and passengers. Considering the seriousness of the incident, P A Dhananjayan, senior divisional commercial manager directed all ticket checking staff of the division to wear their uniforms and identity cards during duty hours.
He also instructed the ID cards should also be shown to the passengers on demand. Palakkad division recorded an earnings of Rs.5.16 crore through ticket checking from April to December 2015. In order to ensure that on board passengers possess proper travelling authority, the ticket checking activity has been intensified, Dhananjayan said, while thanking the presence of mind shown by the passenger and informing the railway authorities.
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