AURANGABAD: A train ticket examiner allegedly made a seriously ill farmer and his wife get off the reserved compartment of the Manmad-Secunderabad Shirdi express at Lasur station in Maharashtra, where the farmer died. The couple did not have valid tickets. B A More, the TTE , neither informed his seniors nor the railway control room about his action.

The government railway police in Aurangabad have registered a case of accidental death while the divisional railway office has initiated an inquiry. On Friday, Bhimrao Raut (65) and his wife Yamunabai (60) had gone to Shirdi for treatment. On Saturday, after treatment, the couple bought tickets for the unreserved bogey at Manmad station. “Raut was ill and could not walk up to the bogey. They boarded the 11th coach of the train,” Santoshkumar Somani of the Marathwada Railway Pravasi Sena said.

Yamunabai noticed that Bhimrao’s health had started deteriorating. The other passengers called the TTE, Somani added, who allegedly forced them out of the train at Lasur station for not having valid tickets. Bhimrao passed away on the platform soon after, Somani said.