A team of railway officials conducted a surprise checking on Wednesday. The inspection was conducted on Tata-Howrah superfast steel express at Tatanagar. A racket of overloading in passenger trains luggage van was busted.
The surprise checking was carried out by the commercial department of the Chakradhapur railway division and continued till the afternoon.According to sources, the inspection began at the railway siding after the Steel Express arrived at Tatanagar station. The officials were led by senior divisional commercial manager (DCM) Ashok Agrawal. He found the luggage van overloaded with parcels, which were not officially booked.
Agrawal immediately sought explanation from the parcel supervisor, Tatanagar, RR Yadav. On the basis of the anomaly in booking of luggage, he recommended suspension of the parcel supervisor.Sources informed that the overloading of parcel van and illegal loading of parcels in the luggage van was being carried under the knowledge of parcel supervisor. He, however, refused to take steps.
The senior DCM also fined a penalty Rs 75,000 against those whose luggage were found lying unauthorised in the train's luggage van.Senior divisional railway manager, Chakradharpur Agrawal confirmed about the detection of the racket in the booking of parcels in the Steel Express' parcel van. " We have carried inspection and have recommended suspension of parcel supervisor after detection of a racket in the Steel Express' parcel van in the wee hours today," said Agrawal.