Chennai: Commotion prevailed at the Guindy railway station on Friday afternoon when a lady doctor alleged that a train ticket examiner had been harassing her in the name of checking her season tickets on a daily basis.
It all started with a ticket examiner stopping the 28-year-old lady doctor for checking ticket as she got down from the train at Guindy railway station at around 2.40 pm on Friday.
She, a resident of Alandur, had boarded the train at St Thomas Mount and had disembarked the train at Guindy station. The ticket examiner had stopped her and asked for the ticket. The lady doctor, as she showed her season ticket, started arguing with the railway staff saying that he had been stopping her on a daily basis in the name of checking ticket.
When the examiner replied that it was his duty to check tickets, she asked her if she looked like a ticket less traveller to him. As the argument turned into a heated exchange of words more people started gathering around the two.
“The lady doctor had by then called some of her colleagues and friends to the scene. She also alleged that the ticket examiner in the name of checking the ticket used to touch her hand and even invited to his room,” railway police source said. The railway staff said that the lady doctor was travelling with an unsigned season ticket and also without an identity card.
He had also alleged that the lady doctor abused him and also prevented him from discharging his duties, the police said. Both sides have lodged complaints with the railway police.
