2 months on, S Railway yet to find missing parcel

The Railway Protection Force (RPF), which has been probing the case, had sent a confidential report to the divisional railway manager a fortnight ago, admitting that the parcels were not traceable, a railway source revealed to DT Next. 

The report, sources said, was sent to the DRM even without RPF holding inquiries with the six staff who had allegedly helped the representatives of a parcel agent scoot off with the consignment ‘impounded’ by a Chief Commercial Inspector on the evening of November 10.  The Chief Commercial Inspector who stumbled upon the scam and reported the same, was learnt to have been asked to go on sick leave.

Five witnesses in the case were also shunted out of the parcel office to Tambaram, Egmore and Nungambakkam on the premise that they have stayed beyond the mandated four-year period at the same station.

Ironically, the accused, including Deputy Chief Ticketing Inspector Yuvaraj, a relative of SRMU general secretary N Kannaiah, have been ‘reinstated’ at Central. 

While Yuvaraj has been moved to Moor Market Complex (MMC), which is barely a stone’s throw away from Central station, two others have been posted at the booking office in Chennai Central. Another two accused, who had applied for transfer to Egmore, have also got their wish fulfilled, all without them appearing for the departmental inquiry.

“The transfers have confirmed the fear of staff that they would be punished if they sided with officers and antagonized the union. The honest staff have been punished and the accused have been rewarded,” a Railway Officer rued.