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Pregnant woman alleges mistreatment by TTE by nikhilndls on 30 July, 2013 - 06:02 PM
avatar nikhilndls Pregnant woman alleges mistreatment by TTE on 30 July, 2013 - 06:02 PM

A Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) detained a six-month pregnant woman and her husband at the Railway Protection Force station in Kollam on Monday for almost four hours for boarding a sleeper coach of the Kanyakumari-bound Jayanthi Janata Express at Karunagapally, the couple have alleged.

The couple, Rajeev and Liji, boarded the S3 sleeper coach as the general compartment was crowded, they said at a press conference here on Monday. As the train left the station the TTE, identified as Mathew Jacob, allegedly asked the couple to vacate it. The woman requested the TTE to consider her condition, and they be allowed to travel in the sleeper compartment standing.

The TTE examined the couple’s identity cards, and upon finding that they were from Paravur — where there was a showdown between TTEs and season-ticket holders travelling in sleeper coaches of the same train last Monday — said that they too were involved in that fracas and would be arrested. (On Monday, commuters had blocked the train for almost two hours at the station. The RPF had registered cases against more than 100 persons, some of whom were arrested at Thiruvananthapuram station and let off on self-bond.)

When they told the TTE that they would inform the media, they were charged with the offences of travelling in a reserved coach without a valid ticket, preventing the TTE from doing his duty, and threatening him.

The couple were later let off on self-bond. But they will have to appear before the Railway Court at Kollam when they receive the summons for the case. Rajeev is an employee at the Secretariat and Liji, an employee with the Scheduled Tribes Welfare Department.

RPF version

The RPF authorities said they did not know what exactly had happened. The TTE had handed over the couple to an RPF personnel on the train, directing that they be taken to the Kollam RPF station and charged. It was on the basis of the complaint that the case was registered.

Mr. Jacob could not be contacted.


Allegedly asked to leave sleeper coach and shift to crowded general coach.