A TTE on the Barouni-Lucknow Express, while checking tickets, assaulted a passenger in the S-6 coach after the passenger couldn't produce a ticket. The TTE used abusive language and slapped the passenger repeatedly. Another passenger, witnessing the incident, recorded a video and uploaded it on social media, which went viral. Taking...
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cognizance of the incident, the Lucknow Divisional Commercial Manager suspended the accused TTE and attached him to the headquarters. The incident is reported to have occurred between Gonda and Barabanki stations. The passenger with a general ticket was traveling in the sleeper coach, which prompted the TTE to verbally abuse him before physically assaulting him.