Railway Ministry has suspended its two officials in the alleged fake water bottle scam. This was confirmed by sources in the Ministry. It was alleged that the accused had shown favour to private firms in supply of cheap packaged drinking water other than mandatory Rail Neer in premium trains including Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express. <br/><br/>They also did not take any action against the private parties despite repeated reminders by IRCTC for non-picking of allotted quota of Rail Neer. The private caterers were supplying cheap brands of water bottle instead of Rail Neer to obtain undue profit.<br/><br/>The Railway Board had prescribed that IRCTC will provide Rail Neer at a rate of ten rupees 50 paise per bottle to private caterers who would be paid around 15 rupees per bottle for supplying the same to the passengers.