When Ticket Collectors (TCs) pull up railway commuters who break the rules and travel ticketless, the least they can do is to follow the rules themselves. And yet, a front-page report on this paper highlighted how many of them neglect to wear their badges and refuse to show their IDs when a passenger does ask to see it.

What's more, a member of a railway commuters' committee discovered that often, off-duty TCs helped their on-duty friends - without authorisation - to collect fines and meet their targets. Caught in their lies, these TCs then got into an argument with the commuter, resulting in him filing a complaint to the Western Railway authorities.