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Man claims to expose nexus between tout and railway officials
Updated On: 08 February, 2017 02:12 PM IST | | mid-day online correspondent
<p>A common man claims to have been forced to pay Rs. 500 extra per ticket to a tout to get his reservations done from the same ticket counter where he was denied earlier</p>


The man who shot the video. Picture courtesy/Videograb
In a video that's doing the rounds on WhatsApp, a man has claimed to have been forced to pay Rs 500 extra per ticket to an agent outside a railway station to get his reservations done. This was after he was reportedly denied by the railway officials at the ticket counter as to the unavailability of tickets.
The man said that many trains were cancelled and he wanted to go to Delhi but added that according to man at the ticket counter, all the seats in all the trains were full. The man said that he was travelling with a 'madam' and kids.
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