<p class="title">Over 1,000 people from the island town of Rameswaram got a free ride on a Madurai-bound train on Wednesday as there was no staff to issue tickets at the railway station, PTI reports from Rameswaram (Tamil Nadu). </p>.<p class="bodytext">The employee at the ticket counter did not report for duty as he was indisposed, following which the passengers boarded the Rameswaram-Madurai passenger train without tickets, a railway official here said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"As there was no one available at the counter till the train started moving, the passengers had to rush and catch the train at 5.30 am," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A complaint has been sent to the divisional railway manager of Madurai in this connection, the official said.</p>
<p class="title">Over 1,000 people from the island town of Rameswaram got a free ride on a Madurai-bound train on Wednesday as there was no staff to issue tickets at the railway station, PTI reports from Rameswaram (Tamil Nadu). </p>.<p class="bodytext">The employee at the ticket counter did not report for duty as he was indisposed, following which the passengers boarded the Rameswaram-Madurai passenger train without tickets, a railway official here said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"As there was no one available at the counter till the train started moving, the passengers had to rush and catch the train at 5.30 am," he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">A complaint has been sent to the divisional railway manager of Madurai in this connection, the official said.</p>
