At Bhopal station, a man boarded a Vande Bharat train so that he could use the restroom. He realized the train had moved and its doors were shut as soon as he exited the restroom. As a result of utilizing the Vande Bharat restroom, he ended up losing more than Rs 6,000.
Because of his need to use the restroom immediately, a Hyderabadi guy flushed Rs 6,000 down the toilet.
Abdul Qadir and his family were on a platform at the Bhopal train station when he suddenly had to urinate. To use the facilities, he boarded a Vande Bharat train.
He was making a trip from Hyderabad to his birthplace of Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh with his wife and their 8-year-old son. In Hyderabad and Singrauli, Abdul owns and operates two dried fruit stores.
They had traveled from Hyderabad to Bhopal, from whence they would board a train to Singrauli. On July 15, they arrived at the Bhopal train station at 5:20 p.m.; their train to Singrauli was due to leave at 8:55 p.m.
Abdul left them on the platform to board a Vande Bharat train headed for Indore so he could use the restroom. The train’s doors had been locked, and it had already begun to move when Abdul emerged from the restroom.
Abdul tried asking three ticket takers and four police officers who were in other coaches for assistance, but they said that only the driver could open the doors. The driver, however, had stopped when he tried to approach him.
Abdul ultimately received a Rs 1,020 punishment for using an invalid ticket to board the train. The train eventually came to a stop in Ujjain, and he got off. He then spent an additional Rs 750 on a bus ticket to Bhopal.
While Abdul was stranded on the train, his wife and son worried about him and grappled with the question of what to do next. She made the decision to skip the Dakshin Express going for Singrauli.
They did not use the 4,000 rupees worth of Dakshin Express tickets they had reserved for their intended trip to Singrauli.
Abdul ultimately lost at least Rs 6,000 for using the Vande Bharat restroom.
Abdul claimed that the lack of an emergency system on Vande Bharat trains forced his family to endure psychological abuse. He thinks that the incident exposed weaknesses in the train’s emergency mechanism.
Subedar Singh, the PRO of the Bhopal Railway Division, responded to Abdul’s accusations by claiming that an announcement is made before the Vande Bharat train departs to specify which direction the doors will open and that the doors are being locked. This safety safeguard is in place to guard against mishaps and guarantee the welfare of travellers. Singh further added that only after receiving directives from higher authorities could the train be stopped.
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