An employee of food vendor was beaten by passengers after they caught him serving leftover of other passengers instead of fresh food to the passengers in the Bhopal-bound Shatabdi Express on Tuesday. According to a passenger Rajeev Jain when he reported an employee of ‘meals on wheel’ regarding the pungent smell and bad taste about the meals he received from the vendor, the employee was not ready to pay heed to the complaint and this infuriated the passenger and who later, slapped the employee.
When train reached Bhopal station, the passengers lodged a complaint with station manager and after receiving complaint, it was assured that the complaint would be sent to Delhi division. later, the vendor lodged a complaint with police against the passengers. Police said the passengers were pacified after intervention. Another passenger, who witnessed whole incident claimed that one of the passengers spotted the employee filling leftover food in the packet and serving the same, but when the passenger complained, the employee was not ready to hear complaint and later other passengers joined the him and the employee was beaten by the passengers.
The employee kept mum and later, escaped the train and went missing while the passengers were busy in filing complaint with the station manager. Passengers in their complaint claimed that the vendor was not having enough food to cater to all the passengers, who ordered for the meals and later, they found that the leftover food was being packed and served to the passengers. They have also lodged complaint with GRP Bhopal, but the police were not willing to shed any information about complaint and expressed ignorance about the complaint.