A consumer court in Kochi has ordered the Railways to pay Rs 13,000 as compensation to a man who was bitten by a rat while travelling from Mumbai to Ernakulam in an AC coach of Duronto Express in 2012. In his petition, Bush C J, a native of Vazhoor near Kochi, alleged that railway officials at Ernakulam and Kottayam railway stations did not provide treatment when he approached them for medical aid for the rat bite he sustained in the third A/C compartment of the train. He said the incident occurred March 11, 2012 at about 4 AM while he was sleeping. He said he woke up in pain as he felt that something had bitten him. "I found that a rat had bitten my left fore finger and sustained deep wound and it started bleeding," he said in his petition. He said he had informed the TTE about the incident and it was recorded. He alleged that there was deficiency in service on the part of the railway with respect to the "rat bite" he suffered during his train journey.