Kolkata, Aug 4 - A ticketless passenger accused a woman ticket checker of stripping her, leading to a mob fury at the bustling Sealdah station here. But an official inquiry found she had disrobed herself to draw sympathy from fellow commuters, a railway official said Tuesday.

'Asima Biswas, 47, was Monday travelling without a ticket. She was asked by a woman ticket checker at the Sealdah railway station to show her ticket. But she failed to show any, and instead took off her sari,' an Eastern Railway (ER) spokesman told IANS.

'Biswas, in a semi-clad state, suddenly came out of the ticket checker's office and started shouting in the station premises to garner public sympathy,' he said.

The ER ordered a probe into Biswas's allegation but found the claim to be untrue.