A 31-year-old man was arrested for allegedly assaulting an on-duty ticket checker at Jogeshwari railway station after being stopped for travelling without a valid ticket, a police official said on Thursday.

The incident took place on Wednesday afternoon at the suburban railway station when Western Railway ticket checker Ashish Ranjan Gupta, 33, intercepted Ajay Shivkumar Dhiwar, who was allegedly travelling without a ticket, the Andheri railway police said, reported PTI.