Navi Mumbai

Bamandogri station

Panvel

Badlapur

A ticket-checker was threatened, shoved and punched in the chest by a man when she asked him to show his ticket atin Navi Mumbai last month. She was so shaken by the assault that she could register an FIR only on Thursday.a 29-year-old junior ticket examiner in the Central Railway, was deputed to the station on September 28. CCTV camera footage showed that around 1 pm, an unidentified man, assumed to be around 45 years old, sat down on a bench on platform 2. Kharote soon approached him and asked him for his train ticket.According to the FIR, the man claimed that he was at the station only to drop his daughter. When asked to show his platform ticket instead, the man allegedly turned belligerent and began yelling at Kharote. He claimed to be affiliated with a political party.But that alleged attempt to browbeat Kharote failed—she told him to either furnish the ticket or pay the penalty. It’s at this point that the man turned menacing. He allegedly threatened to “ruin” her life, shoved her dangerously close to a train at the platform, punched her in the chest and fled.Traumatised by the attack, Kharote kept mum for nearly two weeks. Persuaded by colleagues, she finally approached theGovernment Railway Police (GRP) on Thursday.Vrushali Kavanpure, inspector of Panvel GRP, said a case was registered under sections 354 (assault of a woman with the intent of outraging her modesty), 353 (assault to deter a public servant from discharging his/her duty) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the IPC. The case was thereafter transferred to NRI police station in Navi Mumbai, which has jurisdiction over the railway station.The Central Railway suspended a booking clerk, Manoj Dubey, on Friday for allegedly slapping a passenger during an argument the day before. Although the passenger refused to press charges, railway authorities initiated disciplinary action against him based on an internal report.The chief booking supervisor ofstation was allegedly thrashed when he tried to convince an unidentified man to use a mobile ticketing app or a ticket vending machine to get a ticket on October 10. According to an FIR filed by the Kalyan GRP, a man approached the ticket counter at the station, but the booking clerk had stepped away for a while.Chief booking supervisor Prakash Purswami then recommended that the man use the UTS app or the ticket vending machine. The suggestion, however, didn’t sit well with the man. He picked up an argument, slapped Purswami and fled the spot.