PATIALA: Two days after the Punjab government announced free travel to women in the government-run buses, a bus conductor landed in a fray with the family of a 23-year-old woman passenger over buying of the ticket.
The video of the clash that took place in full public view between the bus conductor and woman's family members had gone viral on Saturday. The turban of the woman's relative was also tossed.
According to the police, the fray between a bus conductor and the family of the woman passenger had taken place at around 3pm at the Old bus stand in Ropar. The police said that the passenger woman, in her twenties, boarded the bus from Patiala and reached Ropar at around 3pm where her family members had already reached. The police said that the woman passenger had exchanged heated arguments with the bus conductor over the free travel however both the parties landed in a compromise later in the evening. The bus conductors and drivers also blocked the road near bus stand for some time in protest but later police cleared the blockade.