08-31-2009, 11:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-07-2009, 03:36 PM by Capt M Kumar.)
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--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Real humor in uniform:
Army officers are very strict about lights. Often in barracks the one thing that is prominently heard at nights is `lights out'. But one Army officer wanted the lights on throughout the night. What's wrong in that, one may ask, but this officer wanted the lights on in the II AC compartment of a train, held people at gun point and held up the express train too!
Call him light hearted, but he was dead serious and sent a shiver down the spine of hapless TTE, fellow passengers and the railway security personnel.
The incident happened on the Dehradun bound Upasana Express on Saturday. Captain Mallik, posted with the 2/3 Gorkha Rifles at Dehradun, boarded the train at Bareilly station at around 11.50 pm. As soon as he got into the compartment, he switched on all the lights. When co passengers protested, he shouted at them saying that he was `on duty.'
The passengers promptly called the TTE who tried hard to explain that lights are to be switched off between 10 pm and 6 am in every sleeper coach, according to reports. A furious captain reportedly pulled out his gun and threatened the TTE who just vanished. The RPF staff inside the train also found it useless to argue with Mallik.
The RPF then sent a wireless message to Moradabad. The train reached Moradabad at 2.30 am with all the lights of the II AC compartment on. Officials tried to reason out but Mallik was in no mood to listen. The railway officials then switched the lights off using a general switch. But then the captain started using torch and started waving. The train was held up for 30 minutes and left Moradabad with the lights on in the compartment.
Mallik's commanding officer, colonel Vivek Kocchar, was then contacted. When the train reached Dehradun, Kocchar who was personally present at the station and asked the military police to step in.
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Real humor in uniform:Army officers are very strict about lights. Often in barracks the one thing that is prominently heard at nights is `lights out'. But one Army officer wanted the lights on throughout the night. What's wrong in that, one may ask, but this officer wanted the lights on in the II AC compartment of a train, held people at gun point and held up the express train too!
Call him light hearted, but he was dead serious and sent a shiver down the spine of hapless TTE, fellow passengers and the railway security personnel.
The incident happened on the Dehradun bound Upasana Express on Saturday. Captain Mallik, posted with the 2/3 Gorkha Rifles at Dehradun, boarded the train at Bareilly station at around 11.50 pm. As soon as he got into the compartment, he switched on all the lights. When co passengers protested, he shouted at them saying that he was `on duty.'
The passengers promptly called the TTE who tried hard to explain that lights are to be switched off between 10 pm and 6 am in every sleeper coach, according to reports. A furious captain reportedly pulled out his gun and threatened the TTE who just vanished. The RPF staff inside the train also found it useless to argue with Mallik.
The RPF then sent a wireless message to Moradabad. The train reached Moradabad at 2.30 am with all the lights of the II AC compartment on. Officials tried to reason out but Mallik was in no mood to listen. The railway officials then switched the lights off using a general switch. But then the captain started using torch and started waving. The train was held up for 30 minutes and left Moradabad with the lights on in the compartment.
Mallik's commanding officer, colonel Vivek Kocchar, was then contacted. When the train reached Dehradun, Kocchar who was personally present at the station and asked the military police to step in.