An Indian tea vendor caught on film taking water from a train toilet before selling his drinks to passengers has been fined as concerns grow in the country over food safety.
The vendor on the Chennai-Hyderabad Express was caught after footage of him and two others coming out of a toilet with large cans used to serve tea and coffee on trains was widely shared.
Indian Railways said in a statement that the “incident has been inquired into in detail” and that the tea seller had been fined the equivalent of £1,100.
The video was made on a train at Secunderabad in Telangana state. Only one of the three vendors was licensed.
The vendor claimed the group were transferring milk from one can to another and did not want to do it in the open.
“The very fact that tea/coffee cans were seen being brought out of the toilet is in itself a wrong practice,” the railway company said.