When a ticket-checker apprehended a man traveling ticketless in the first class compartment of a Virar-bound Churchgate fast train on Saturday evening, he expected to extract a fine and let the man go, as he does with hundreds of errant commuters every day. The curious events that followed have now become the subject of court proceedings.

Believe it or not! The pass produced by Gupta contained images and names of kings of his community -- late Kunwar Keshri Singh and 95-year-old Ballu Bhai -- who are considered the present-day king of the country by the tribe