Date:24/02/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/02/24/stories/2007022410891500.htm

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TTEs exchange blows in Ratlam station

Ratlam: A fight broke out among the railway staff over a dispute on their duty schedule on the recently launched "Garib Rath" at the railway station here, official sources said on Friday.

The dispute, which started over the duty schedule of Travelling Ticket Examiners (TTEs) from the Kota and Ratlam Divisions on the Hazrat Nizamuddin-Ahmedabad train, took an ugly turn when they exchanged blows on Thursday, a Railway spokesman said. It is purely an internal matter of the Railways, but authorities have taken seriously the manner in which the staff fought in public, the spokesman added.

Four TTEs were suspended after the incident and a joint committee of senior officials from the Kota and Ratlam Divisions was formed to probe the matter, he said.

Though cameramen of some TV channels covering the incident alleged an attackby the railway staff, the spokesman said: "I have no knowledge of it. No complaint has been filed in this regard." — PTI