Central Railways (CR) has been conducting intensive and regular ticket checking drives. In one of the recently concluded drive more than lakh cases of ticketless/irregular travel have been detected.
Mumbai Division of Central Railway conducted these checking drives in suburban and non-suburban trains from June 15, 2020, to January 31, 2021.
The statement released by CR said, "During these checks, 1.58 lakh cases were detected and an amount of INR 4.95 crores realised as a penalty. Out of this, about 1.21 lakh commuters were detected in suburban realising an amount of INR 2.87 lakh as penalty. Whereas, penalty of INR 2.09 crores recovered from 37,823 passengers in non-suburban trains."
In non-suburban trains, irregularities like misuse of senior citizen quota, travelling on altered tickets, improper conversion of system generated ticket to e-tickets, travelling with coloured xerox of tickets, travelling with fake ID cards, transfer of ticket cases were mainly noticed during the drives.
Moreover, Central Railway appeals to the passengers to travel with proper and valid railway tickets in order to avoid inconvenience and travel with dignity.