Indian Railways — passenger travelling without ticket

Being a citizen of india it's my duty to inform about this incident.
A passenger name mahendra gujar and his wife harshada gujar were travelling in a train 01063 csmt mas special on 26 june 2019 they were supposed to board on train from lonavala but they boarded from thane.

Pnr no: [protected]
Mahendra gujar s7/38
Harshada gujar s7/40

When rajesh manjrekar (Tte) asked them for ticket mahendra gujar showed a photo of him and mr. Sunil tatkare (Ncp minister) on his phone. Is this really fair?
Can we board from any station earlier to our boarding station just being associated with some political party or by showing photos of some political leader?
I feel this is really a limit. Are railway rules different for common man and political associate? So he travelled ticktless from thane to lonavala which is really against railway regulation and inspite of this he was not penalized, just because he is linked with a political party?
Kindly request to look into this incident which is really shameful