Clash Over Train Tickets
2 BR staff suspended, 3 buyers injured
Three train ticket buyers were injured during a clash between the buyers and two railway employees over “illegal” purchase of train tickets at Chittagong Railway Station yesterday morning.
The two employees were suspended following the clash.
The clash began when people waiting in a queue before Counter No-2 found that the person in front of the queue was going to buy 20 tickets for a railway employee, Ziaul Alam.
The suspended employees were Ziaul Alam and Abdul Awal, booking clerk, of Chittagong Railway Station while the injured buyers were Mohammad Raihan, Nurul Imran, and Mirza Amir.
“We told the person in the front to leave the queue as we had been waiting since dawn. The man left but Ziaul Alam came to replace him and collected the tickets from the booking clerk,” said Nurul Imran, adding that it was “illegal”.
He further said, “When we protested against the incident and grabbed Ziaul, he accompanied by a number of railway porters and two members of Railway Nirapatta Bahini (RNB) hit me and dragged me out of the queue.”
“Seeing that, other ticket seekers and I tried to rescue Nurul Imran from the railway employees,” said Raihan, adding that the RNB men attacked them with their batons.
Denying the matter of RNB men charging the ticket seekers, RNB Chittagong Railway Station Inspector Saleh Patwary said, “Our members only intervened in the situation to calm them down. Nobody attacked the passengers.”
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