A video depicting a Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) assaulting a passenger on Barauni-Lucknow Express (15203) has gone viral on social media. A user, @AshishSinghKiJi, shared the video on X (formerly known as Twitter) captioning, "Do they have the freedom to beat up people like this, tagging Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav? Why does this happen in the system?" The user has also demanded action against the TTE in this case.
After the video surfaced on social media, netizens reacted to the TTE's behavior. A user named MBA MA BTECHIT (@svmbaekohau) stated, "Railways Minister should resign: multiple accidents with casualties, ticketed passengers sometimes unable to travel due to unreserved people taking their seats, now these types of incidents too!"
Another user, Rajesh Shau (@askrajeshsahu), expressed in his post that, "There is no status for the poor in this country. There are evil people in the government system who do not allow innocent people to live. They think of them as insects. He himself had been like this once, but as soon as he got the job, his hatred of the poor filled his heart. See the impact of this TT. He must be beating many such people every day. He is not afraid of the system. Taking bribes made his skin thick. Now, if this continues in the system, we all will surely suffer."
Earlier, several incidents of TTE beating passengers onboard have been reported. In a similar case, a travelling ticket examiner (TTE) allegedly assaulted and kicked a passenger out of a running train near a station a short distance from Rampur junction on Sunday night. While railway officials have recorded statements from eyewitnesses supporting this fact, the TTE claimed that the passenger jumped from the train himself when asked for a ticket.
The incident allegedly occurred on the Varanasi-Dehradun Janata Express near Shahzadnagar station, 15 km from Rampur Junction, while the train was running at high speed.