Railway vendor fined for using water from toilet to make tea

The incident happened onboard the Chennai Central-Hyderabad Charminar Express in December 2017.

May 03, 2018 07:00 am | Updated 01:06 pm IST - Hyderabad

 Picture for representation purpose only.

Picture for representation purpose only.

A vending contractor has been slapped with a fine of ₹1 lakh by the Railways after a video surfaced suggesting that water from a train toilet was being used to prepare tea and coffee, the South Central Railway (SCR) here said on Wednesday.

In the video, circulating in the social media for the past few days, a vendor was seen coming out of a train toilet with tea and coffee cans, conveying that water was ‘mixed’ in the cans inside the toilet, it said.

The incident had occurred in December last year on board the Chennai Central-Hyderabad Charminar Express at the Secunderabad station here, a release said.

“An inquiry was conducted, and on the basis of it action has been taken against contractor P. Sivaprasad, with whom the vendor in the video was employed.”

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