By IANS
Kolkata : A 24-year-old man died after he was allegedly thrown off a local train by a railway official for travelling without a ticket in Burdwan district of West Bengal.
The incident took place Saturday evening when a group of six travelling ticket examiners (TTEs) headed by P.B. Samanta caught Suraj Pande travelling ticketless. He was slapped with a Rs.200 fine but Pande had only Rs.40, which he did not want to part with, local media reports said Sunday.
According to co-passengers, an altercation followed between Pande and the ticket checkers and he (Pande) was pushed about.
With the TTEs standing near the door, a shove by one of them led to Pande falling out near a level crossing gate when the train was entering Katwa station. Pande was run over by the same train.
Pande, a resident of Kirnahar in Birbhum’s Nanur police station area, had boarded the BK9 Up Bandel Katwa local from Kuntighat station.
Protesting the incident, co-passengers raised an alarm. A passenger caught one of the TTEs, Yogendra Mardi, red-handed but the rest managed to escape from the scene. Mardi was handed over to the General Railway Police (GRP).
An FIR was also lodged with the GRP against the six-member TTE group.