TTE 'pushes' teen off train

MALDA, July 27: A fourteen year-old boy was critically injured after he was pushed off a running train allegedly by a travelling ticket examiner (TTE) near Kashimbazar station in Murshidabad this afternoon. Nayan Biswas is battling for his life at Berhampur State General Hospital. Nayan, a class VIII student of Jogapur High School in Murshidabad, fled his Raninagar home to Kolkata a week ago after stealing more than Rs 10,000. He was returning home today with a neighbour by 103 UP Lalgola express. They had only one ticket between them. According to Nayan's neighbour, the TTE, Mr D Roy, started frisking them after they had failed to produce two tickets. When the TTE chanced upon Rs 10,000 stashed in Nayan's pocket, he snatched it, the eyewitness said. And, when Nayan protested, his neighbour said, the TTE shoved the teenager off the train. Angry passengers hunted down Mr Roy to the next station from where he disappeared. Railway authorities insisted that Nayan had jumped off the train to evade the TTE since he was travelling with only one ticket for two persons. A complaint was yet to be lodged with railway police. n SNS