Pune: On board PMPML bus, tourist slapped with fine, `harassed´ by ticket checkers
(WorldNews India)

A TOURIST from Bihar, who was travelling to Parvati by a PMPML bus, was allegedly slapped with a fine of Rs 300 and verbally harassed by three ticket checkers, when he told them that he had not yet been issued a ticket by the conductor. The ticket checkers boarded the bus midway and asked the commuter for his ticket. Advertising The tourist, identified as R Mishra from Darbhanga, is a marketing professional who was visiting relatives in Pimpri-Chinchwad. The incident has drawn flak from civic activists who have, once again, demanded that ticket checkers should not enter a bus midway to catch those travelling without tickets. Instead, they should do so when commuters alight from the bus. The...