Southern Railway — bribery

Sir,

The letter being presented before your goodself is to take the curtains off from and to show you the truth happening behind you. Being an ordinary passenger i usually use rail transportation. I am a frequent traveller, till this day it was a smooth journey and comfortable atmosphere within this provisions provided. Hope, you can understand the mental stature of being an advocate, the pressure, tensions, stress that we undergo can never be explained but eventhough at that stature too we get relaxed for few minutes in this means of travel that we make through train. Today, the same travel put me into an embarassing situation by one of your employees who came to check the tickets. The fact is that already the train was late and to the rush the passengers travelling rushed to the train and got settled themselves but after few minutes a person approached us and enquired about the tickets and we all presented our tickets. As he checked upon he found that my ticket was not reservation based ticket but it was valid unreserved ticket taken from palghat to thrissur. The train which i travelled was 16277 in d11 coach. I was not having the knowledge rather would say that i was unaware about that coach's speciality. When this concerned ticket examiner came and bribed me rs. 500/- for entering into reservation coach then only to my shock i understood that i am in the wrong coach. But the next shock that shook me was that he shouted at me in the crowd without any mutual respect and also bribed from me rs. 500/- and extended me a ticket worth rs. 15/-. Eventhough i was ready to pay the reservation charges separately, he was not in a state to accept it and showed reluctance and rather shouted and questioned upon my individuality, integrity and just spit on my dignity. Still i am in the an astonishing state that even after bribing me and providing a ticket and seat number in that coach d11/40, he was busy in shouting and screaming at me without any solid reason. The reason behind this act of your subordinate is to be explained or due action should be implied and a positive reply related should be reported as reply. If in the sense the due action is not taken then i will be forced to file a private complaint and also defamation case against railway authorities and the concerned person whose name is c f petson (Ticket examiner) as well who bribed me rs. 500/-.

Thanking you,

Muneer p
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Thrissur