Bhubaneswar/Berhampur: Director-general of police R.P. Sharma on Tuesday suspended inspector in charge of Government Railway Police, Berhampur, Rajendra Kumar Munda for allegedly assaulting an on-duty chief ticket inspector on the Purulia-Vellapuram Superfast Express on Monday evening.

D. Kiran Sagar, the ticket collector, has a dislocated right shoulder is now undergoing treatment at Railway Hospital in Visakhapatnam.

Four members of the GRP allegedly dragged out and assaulted Sagar after he asked a GRP official, who was travelling on the train without uniform, to get off the train because he couldn't furnish a ticket.

According to the FIR Sagar lodged against GRP assistant sub-inspector, Berhampur, trouble started after he asked a man travelling in coach B-1 to produce his ticket. But he said that he was with the GRP. He could neither produce his identity card nor was he willing to pay for the ticket.

"I asked that man to vacate the reserved coach immediately. But he started abusing me," Sagar said.

"When the train reached Berhampur station at 10.30pm, some GRP men, some of them in uniform, dragged me out from the B-1 coach on to the platform and beat me up. They even did not allow me to return to the train when it left the station," said Sagar.

The officer in Charge of GRP, Berhampur, R.K. Munda, who came to Berhampur by the same train, denied the allegations of GRP Berhampur staff having assaulted the ticket inspector.

The injured Sagar was sent to a nearby hospital and later transferred to Railway Hospital, Visakhapatnam.

Following the suspension of Munda, the police said prima-facie, Munda was found instigating the assault on the ticket inspector.

"We are trying to ascertain the identity of others, including the passenger who was travelling without ticket. Action will also be initiated if other GRP personnel are found to be involved," said a senior police officer.