Elderly Man Denied Entry In Shatabdi Exp For Wearing Dhoti

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Etawah: An elderly man was denied entry into Shatabdi Express at Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, for allegedly “wearing a dhoti and carrying a cloth bag and an umbrella”.

“I was not allowed to board the train because I was wearing a dhoti. The policeman and an attendant standing near a coach asked me to go away,” Baba Ram Awadh Das (72) told reporters in Etawah.

The man claimed that he had a reserved ticket in coach C-2, seat number 72 of 12033 Kanpur-New Delhi Shatabdi Express for July 4. The train arrived at Etawah station at 7:40 pm and as he was going to board it, the policeman standing at the gate objected to his clothes. Later the cop and coach attendant cracked jokes and asked him to deboard the train.

“I showed them my ticket but they refused to listen to me and forced me to alight the train. The train left after the two-minute halt and I was left stranded at the station,” Das said.

Later, Das met station master Prince Raj Yadav and narrated his ordeal. The officer offered him a seat in Magadh Express, which was to come next, but Das declined the help saying that he had been insulted by the Railways and wrote his complaint in the log book with the station manager.

Etawah railway station superintendent Puranmal Meena told reporters on Friday that Das had filed a written complaint.

“I am told that he accidentally reached the generator coach where a cop probably asked him to go which Das took it otherwise. As he was not accompanied by any person, he failed to understand why the policeman asked him to go,” Meena said.

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