Condemning the assault on a female Ticket Checker (TC) and a railway employee, who intervened to save her, at GTB Nagar station on Thursday, 175 TCs protested outside the administrative building at CST in a day-long strike yesterday.

Speaking to this correspondent, one of the protestors said TC Anita Pawar was manhandled by the family members of a ticketless traveller she had caught around 6.30 pm. The assault on the TC occurred after the ticketless passenger, Anchal, called home and asked her family to come and pay the fine.