Terming it a major safety violation, the Central Railway (CR) is set to take action after a viral video emerged recently showing a woman passenger cooking instant noodles inside a train’s AC coach.

“This is a serious safety violation and it will be dealt with firmly,” said a senior CR official, reacting to the video. The official added that “such acts, though seemingly minor to passengers, carry significant fire risks and cannot be ignored.”

The clip, first posted on the Instagram account of one Sarita Lingayat on November 20, shows a woman plugging a domestic electric kettle into a charging socket inside a train’s coach. These sockets, railway engineers said, are intended only for low-power devices such as mobile phones and laptops. In the video, the woman is seen preparing noodles and

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