On May 25th, 2024, a group of five coach attendants on the Kshipra Express train from Indore to Howrah physically assaulted two passengers after a dispute over seating in an AC coach. The passengers, Pankaj Kumar and Suman Kumar, had boarded the train in Gaya with general tickets and were looking...
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for seats in the AC coach. The coach attendants initially offered them seats in B1 and B2 but later demanded INR 3000 per seat. When the passengers confronted the TTE, they were asked to disembark at Koderma station. Upon disembarking, the attendants assaulted the passengers and stole their purses. The attendants were apprehended at the Gomo station and arrested. A case has been filed against the five attendants, including Neeraj Rajak, Abhishek Vishwakarma, Yashwant Mehra, Harishankar Dube, and Gajendra Singh Thakur.