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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Namita Singh

How a man’s fight with his wife on phone led to a misdirected train and £270k loss for Indian Railways

A minor miscommunication over the phone set off a chain of extraordinary events for a railway employee in India, sparking a 12-year saga of legal and personal consequences that ultimately led to a divorce.

The station master’s troubles began when, during a shift in the city of Visakhapatnam in southern Andhra Pradesh state, he engaged in a phone conversation with his wife, reported the Times of India (TOI), without identifying the individual by his name.

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