A drunk ticket checker who allegedly peed on a woman onboard an Amritsar-Kolkata train has been arrested in Lucknow today. The man has also been sacked – an action taken on the instructions of Railway Minister Ashwani Vaishnav.
The man, Munna Kumar from Bihar, urinated on the woman’s head on Sunday midnight.She was travelling with her husband Rajesh Kumar in the A1 coach of Akal Takht Express, Government Railway Police officials said. Munna Kumar was on leave on the day of the incident, they said.
The incident comes months after two similar cases were reported on Air India flights – New York to Delhi and Paris to Delhi.
On November 26, a “drunk” male passenger urinated on a female co-passenger onboard a New York-Delhi Air India flight. Just ten days after the shocking incident another such incident took place on the Paris-Delhi sector when a man peed on a blanket of a female passenger.
Shankar Mishra, the accused in the first case, was arrested in January and banned by the airline for four months.
