Ticket inspector shot dead on train near Delhi

A chief ticket inspector (CTI) of the IndianRailways has been shot dead on board the Mahananda Express, between Ghaziabadand New Delhi, police said Saturday.

The incident took place late Friday when unidentifiedassailants shot Kifayatullah in the stomach when he sought to see theirtickets.

Hailing from Moradabad, the railway official was on duty onthe Mahananda Express which runs between West Bengal and New Delhi. He wastaken to the Guru Teg Bahadur hospital in New Delhi, where he died at around10.30 p.m. due to excessive blood loss.

Railway officials told IANS that the incident took placenear the Sahibabad station when the official was checking tickets.

A group of young men had a verbal spat with him and itturned ugly soon after. One of them whipped out a pistol and shot the railwayofficial in his stomach. They then escaped.

Shocked passengers pulled the emergency chain and informedthe Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel on train.

When the train chugged into the Shahdra station, railwayofficials wheeled out the bleeding CTI and took him to hospital.

During treatment, the injured official said he had analtercation with some youngsters as they were not travelling with tickets. Hecould not speak further, an official said.

"A hunt is on for the assailants," PankajLawaniya, GRP in-charge of Ghaziabad told IANS, adding that the passengers werebeing questioned.

Train travel has increasingly become scary in Uttar Pradesh,with more than half-a-dozen cases of eve teasing and violence reported in thelast six months from trains plying across the state.

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