CHENNAI: If bus ticket books are lost by conductors, the cost of preparation of the tickets alone should be recovered from them and not the face value of the tickets, the Madras HC has ruled. Justice K Chandru gave the ruling recently while passing orders on a batch of writ petitions from conductors challenging the action of various State Transport Corporations. Accepting the arguments of advocate RY George Williams, representing eight conductors attached to the SETC in Coimbatore and Villupuram divisions, the judge pointed out that this court had held that if the property entrusted to workmen was lost, they must make good the same. But, at the same time, the loss could not be fictitious or fanciful and it should be commensurate with the actual loss. The judge, however, made it clear that his order would not preclude the management from taking any action if there was any negligence on the part of the conductors. If the missed tickets were found re-issued either in the bus in which the petitioner was the conductor or by any other conductor in the same transport corporation, criminal and disciplinary actions could always be initiated, the judge added.
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