Central Railway has appealed to passengers to travel with proper and valid railway tickets.
MUMBAI : The Mumbai Division of Central Railway conducted intensive and regular ticket checking drives in suburban and non-suburban trains from June 15 to January 31. During these checks, 1.58 lakh cases were detected and an amount of Rs.4.95 crore recovered as penalty, said CR chief spokesperson Shivaji Sutar on Sunday. Of this, about 1.21 lakh cases were detected in suburban, recovering an amount of Rs.2.87 lakh as penalty and Rs. 2 crore as penalty from 37,823 cases in non-suburban trains, he said. In non-suburban trains, irregularities like misuse of senior citizen quota, travelling on altered tickets, improper conversion of system generated tickets to e- tickets, travelling with coloured xerox of tickets, travelling with fake ID cards, transfer of ticket cases were mainly noticed during the drives, he pointed out.