A youth, who was carrying travelling ticket but refused to show it to a lady officer in train claiming himself to be an advocate and stressing that he would produce it only before the magistrate, was convicted by a city court for creating inconvenience and released on probation.
Santosh Prasad Chaura-siya, an advocate by profession, when asked to furnish the ticket by Renu Gulati, a Railway Protection Force employee, instead of following the order, started abusing her saying, “I am an advocate and you can do anything you like.” Further, when he was taken to the RPF post, he did not produce the ticket saying that the ticket would be produced only before the magisterial court.
However, magisterial court convicted the youth for the offences under Section 145 (inconvenience to public at the railway platform) and 146 (prevented the railway staff in discharge of their official duties) of the Railways Act, which was challenged by him and brought before the sessions judge.
Additional sessions judge Narinder Kumar set aside the conviction order of the magisterial court under section 145 (inconvenience to public at the railway platform), but convicted him for preventing the railway employee from discharging her official duty.
“It can be safely said that the prosecution proved before the trial court that the witness obstructed and prevented the railway employee in discharge of her official duties and learned trial magistrate rightly held him of the offence U/s 146 of Railway Act.” The convict is released on probation.
As per records, he was about to board the train from Patel Nagar railway station to Safdarjung on December 20, 2010.