Jabalpur: Samosa Vendor Forces Passenger to Hand Over Smartwatch After UPI Payment Fails While Train Departs; Vendor’s License Being Cancelled as Video Goes Viral
The dramatic encounter, caught on CCTV and now viral on social media, shows vendor Sandeep Gupta grabbing the passenger by the collar, dragging him, and refusing to let go until the watch was handed over—all while the train was leaving Platform No. 5. Despite the passenger’s attempt to pay digitally and even photographing the QR code, the vendor blocked him from boarding.
In a bizarre incident at Jabalpur Railway Station on October 17, a young passenger was forced to surrender his smartwatch worth INR 2,000 to a samosa vendor after a failed UPI payment for a INR 20 snack. The dramatic encounter, caught on CCTV and now viral on social media, shows vendor Sandeep Gupta grabbing the passenger by the collar, dragging him, and refusing to let go until the watch was handed over, all while the train was leaving Platform No. 5. Despite the passenger’s attempt to pay digitally and even photographing the QR code, the vendor blocked him from boarding. The Jabalpur Railway Administration acted swiftly. “The vendor was arrested under the Railway Act and his license is being cancelled,” confirmed West Central Railway CPRO Harshit Srivastava. Jabalpur Railway Station Shocker: Passenger Forced to Give Up Smartwatch to Samosa Vendor After UPI Payment Through PhonePe Fails and Train Starts Moving; Video Goes Viral.
Passenger Forced to Give Smartwatch to Samosa Vendor After UPI Payment Fails
At Jabalpur railway station, a vendor forced a passanger to pay online and buy samosas as the train chugged out of platform. When the online payment didn't go through, the passanger took off his wrist watch and gave it to the vendor who then released the collar. pic.twitter.com/sCzv69pDCb
— Piyush Rai (@Benarasiyaa) October 18, 2025
Vendor Arrested After Video Goes Viral
#WATCH | A passenger was forced to give a watch to a samosa seller after his UPI payment failed while his train was departing from Jabalpur.
West Central Railway CPRO Harshit Srivastava says, "The incident occurred on the evening of 17th October. At Jabalpur station, a vendor… pic.twitter.com/3mHkMROq1E
— ANI (@ANI) October 19, 2025
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