<p>New Delhi, Dec 27 (PTI) The railway ministry on Friday dismissed as “fake” and “misleading” claims that a man travelled 250 kilometres from Itarsi to Jabalpur hiding on a train’s wheel axle.</p>
<p>Railway officials said that someone shot the video of the man coming out of the wheel axle of a stationary train and circulated it with the misleading claim that he had to hide himself near the wheelset because he did not have money to buy tickets.</p>
<p>”These reports are completely fake and baseless,” Dilip Kumar, Executive Director, Information and Publicity, Railway Board, said.</p>
<p>”The person was just hiding near the wheel axle when the train was not moving. It is practically not possible for anyone to hide on the wheelset of a moving train as it moves along with the wheels,” he said.</p>
<p>”Some news organisations and social media influencers picked it up and made it viral without verifying its authenticity,” Kumar added.</p>
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