After the curd scam disclosed in the RTI by an activist in the Indian Railways, another incident has kicked up a row. In an audio clip, a member of the Railways’ Passenger Amenities Committee (PAC) was heard speaking cuss words and said ‘tumhara baap bol rahen hain’ to Railway officers.
According to the reports published by Indian Express, the three PAC members who went to carry out an inspection of passenger facilities at Moradabad were not satisfied with the facilities at the Moradabad rest house, where they were putting up for the night.
In an audio clip of the purported conversation which has been accessed by The Indian Express, around 2 am the PAC member Ashok Tripathi allegedly had a conversation with Divisional Engineer (Headquarters) Amit Kumar, lashed out at the railway officers, hurled curses and said “tumhara baap bol rahen hain”.
Protesting the incident the divisional officers have written a letter to headquarters and demanded action in the matter. The letter said, “It has lowered the morale of officers.”
The staff at the Moradabad division also wore black badges in protest.
Three members of the PAC — Ashok Tripathi, a BJP functionary from Haryana, Irafan Ahmed, a functionary of the BJP’s minority cell, and L P Jayaswal — were given rooms in the Officers’ Rest House in Moradabad division of Northern Railway on their arrival from Jhansi early on May 4.
Tripathi also complained that the air-conditioner in his room was not working. But the next morning, the divisional electrical staff found the ACs were fine.
However, Tripathi has denied abusing railway officers. He said, “We were raising issues, like how some officers were stationed in one place for years. So they concocted the story.”
Tripathi told Indian Express that “I know there is an audio clip, but it does not have the whole conversation.”
Speaking with the Indian Express, the Divisional Railway Manager Moradabad Pramod Kumar, the head of the division, said the inspection by the committee the next morning highlighted minor issues.
Kumar said “they found that water pressure was less in one of the taps and one platform shade had fewer fans. The incident is supposed to have happened in the night, much before the inspection”.
