madurai any person frequently travelling by buses in the state would be at the receiving end of the con acts by touts at private bus stands whose efforts to make passengers buy tickets border on being coercive to address this and several issues faced by passengers a petition has been moved before the madurai bench of the madras high court seeking action against unlicensed ticket agents and for regulation at private bus standsm dineshkaran an advocate in his petition cited an incident wherein he was surrounded by touts at the maatuthavani private bus terminus who forced him to buy an exorbitantly priced ticket for a bus to chennai and abused and threatened him when he did not show interest according to the petitioner they claimed that the particular bus they were canvassing for was the last bus to chennai and surrounded him not allowing him to leave even if he showed no interest when the petitioner denied to heed in to their suggestions the touts who were in an inebriated state abused the petitioner and threatened him they said that i will not be allowed to board any of the other buses in the private bus stand the petitioner stated the petitioner further stated that the touts surrounding him and arguing with him can be found in the cctv footage at the bus stand and added that he also called up the anna nagar police station in madurai half a kilometre from the bus stand however police arrived only a hour later according to the petition the petitioner stated that he found similar behaviour by agents in chennai too after which he sent representations to the transport commissioner and also the madurai omni bus owners welfare association the petitioner claimed that the representative of the omni bus association expressed anguish at such behaviour and said that they cannot do anything more as there is political backing to those who engage the touts who behave in an unruly manner with the passengers the petitioner pointed out that there are provisions in the motor vehicle act for people to obtain licence to become travelticket agents and such arbitrary act is illegal the petitioner sought for action against the illegal ticket agents and also against private bus owners who engage these touts to rip off the passengers a division bench of justice n kirubakaran and justice s s sundar admitted the petition and issued notice to the authorities including the omni bus owners association