Man wins fight to get Rs 35 refund on cancelled railway ticket

New Delhi, July 21(Reporters Today Bureau): An engineer in Rajasthan’s Kota has won his five-year fight to get a Rs 35 refund from the Railways.

In the process he has helped nearly 3 lakh people in a similar situation.

The Railways has approved Rs 2.43 crore in refunds to 2.98 lakh IRCTC users — many of whom might have brought multiple tickets, according to an RTI reply received by Kota-based engineer Sujeet Swami.

Swami had filed nearly 50 Right to Information applications and shot off letters to four government departments in his fight to get back Rs 35 charged as service tax despite cancelling his ticket before the GST regime was implemented.