A video grab of a canteen worker washing tea glasses in the bin at Thane station.

MUMBAI: Central Railway on Friday fined a railway canteen contractor Rs 1 lakh within a few hours after receiving a complaint on its Twitter handle about a canteen staffer washing tea cups and even his vest in a garbage bin at Thane station.

The complainant, Mandar D Abhyankar posted the video on his Twitter handle @mandra2005 and tagged Central Railway, the railway ministry and minister Piyush Goyal.

CR senior divisional commercial manager Robin Kalia ordered an inquiry within a few hours of the tweet being posted and imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh against Gupta Brothers. The order issued by the divisional commercial manager M L Meena warned the railway canteen contractor that “recurrence of such irregularities would be viewed very seriously, including termination of the tea stall licence”.

