Indian Railways is one of the world's largest railway networks with more than 12,000 trains running across the nation everyday.

Scamming with whatever ways we can, is nothing new. According to a Facebook post, a man put out an account of a retired IAS officer who was travelling from Visakhapatnam to Howrah in Yesvantpur-Howrah Express.

According to the post, a vegetarian meal was sold to the retired IAS officer Shivendra K Sinha by a waiter at Rs 90. Sensing something wrong, Sinha figured out that he was buying his meal for a price more than what IRCTC is selling at.

Upon Google-ing, he found the rate card and the menu.

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The rate card confirmed that the vegetarian meal costs Rs 30 (excluding taxes) and non-vegetarian meal is priced at Rs 35 (excluding taxes).

It became a scam when the pantry car officials asked for a price much higher than what IRCTC has decided. The veg meal that was supposed to be sold at Rs 50 was sold at Rs 90 and the non-veg meal that was supposed to cost Rs 55 was sold at Rs 100.

Regardless of what the waiter charged Sinha, he paid the official price but waiter demanded for the price the pantry car officials unofficially fixed.

Sinha asked for the rate card which the waiter failed to provide. After the discrepancy was highlighted, the waiter agreed upon taking Rs 50 instead of Rs 90 further telling Sinha to not tell anybody about this.

A furious Sinha then did not sit this one out and rushed towards the pantry car to have a word with pantry in-charge.

He filed a complaint with the in-charge and in return, he was to get a copy of the complaint. He filed the complaint saying that he was charged more for his meal but to his surprise, the in-charge wrote, "taken only Rs 50 from customer Bill No XXX and this customer writes complaint every time he travels."

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