Manhandling of techie: Rlys acts fast

Manhandling of techie: Rlys acts fast
Four RPF officials, two ticket examiners suspended
Betrayal of trust
VIJAY TIMES NEWS

Bangalore: The ugly incident in which an IT employee was manhandled by Railway personnel last Friday has led to the Railways suspending four Railway Protection Force (RPF) officers and two T ravelling Ticket examiners ( TTEs) on W ednesday .

Nimish Adani, an employee of Logix Microsystems, was manhandled by the accused when the latter asked him for a platform ticket.

Adani said despite his producing the platform ticket, one of the TTEs asked him, "What if you had not had the ticket?" He was immediately taken to the side and slapped by TTEs and four RPF personnel who joined in, crushing his spectacles.

Adani alleged a conman, named Srinivas, tried to "loot him" on the pretext of help him when the officials started beating him up and threatened to put him behind bars.

On W ednesday , Adani appeared before Railways Police SP K H Srinivasan for an investigation to be conducted under the supervision of DSP M Krishnappa.

S Gagarin, Senior Divisional Commercial Manager of South W estern Railway , told Vijay T imes: "This kind of incident is a blot on our image. W e will definitely initiate severe action against the guilty once the final inquiry report - expected within seven days - is received." On why it took four days to lodge the complaint, Adani said: "Y ou be in my shoes a analyse the physical and mental trauma I was going through." He said he went to the Police Commissioner’s office to lodge a complaint on Sunday , but it was not entertained as it was a holiday .

He was also told Railway complaints do not come under that jurisdiction.

Logix Microsystems H R Manager Indraneel Som said, "W e wanted to lodge the complaint on Saturday but did not know how to go about. So , we used e-mail to narrate the incident to our circle of friends." "On the basis of email details received, it is taken as a Public Interest Litigation and would take care to prevent such incidents in future," he said.

Railway SP K H Srinivasan said the Railway police have registered Adani’s case and assured it would be dealt with appropriate sections of Indian Penal Code.

Nimish Adani realised he was being duped by a conman who took him to a mobile phone shop and demanded a handset worth Rs 18,000. The man, Srinivas, on the pretext of helping Adani, gained his confidence and started looting him. He had also allegedly withdrawn Rs 15,000 from his debit card. Adani, however , refused to buy the phone and mustered courage to get his card and Rs 15,000 in cash back.