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Have Informed Sports Minister, Says Record Holder Dev Meena, After TTE Makes Him Deboard Train, Fines Rs 5000 For Travelling With Pole Vault
Travelling Ticket Examiner: Dev Meena, the national record holder in pole vault, has alleged that Indian Railways has taken no action after he and fellow athlete to deboard a train and cut short their travel from Mangaluru to Bhopal at Panvel in Maharashtra for carrying his five-meter long pole on the train.
To top it, Meena, who holds the national record of 5.40m in men's pole vault, claimed that he, along with fellow athlete Kuldeep Yadav and his coach Ghanshyam Yadav, were humiliated by a Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE), forced out of the train, detained at the station for five hours and made to pay a fine of Rs 5000.
According to reports, the ticket examiner enforced the latest luggage rules of Indian Railways on the athletes' five-meter carbon fiber poles, worth Rs 2 lakh each, and threw them out of the train.
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