{"id":47373,"date":"2022-08-12T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T05:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/12\/man-overcharged-20-rupees-for-india-train-ticket-wins-22-year-legal-battle"},"modified":"2022-08-12T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T05:55:10","slug":"man-overcharged-20-rupees-for-india-train-ticket-wins-22-year-legal-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47373","title":{"rendered":"Man overcharged 20 rupees for India train ticket wins 22-year legal battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer Tungnath Chaturvedi took on the might of Indian Railways after being charged 20 rupees \u2013 or 21p \u2013 too much<\/p>\n<p>An Indian lawyer has won a 22-year legal battle with Indian Railways for overcharging him by 20 rupees (21p or 25c).<\/p>\n<p>When Tungnath Chaturvedi, 66, bought a ticket at Mathura station in Uttar Pradesh in 1999 to go to Moradabad, he was charged 90 rupees instead of 70. He complained there and then but did not receive a refund.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/12\/man-overcharged-20-rupees-for-india-train-ticket-wins-22-year-legal-battle\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer Tungnath Chaturvedi took on the might of Indian Railways after being charged 20 rupees \u2013 or 21p \u2013 too muchAn Indian lawyer has won a 22-year legal battle with Indian Railways for overcharging him by 20 rupees (21p or 25c).When Tungnath Chaturved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,766,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-rail-transport","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47374,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47373\/revisions\/47374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}