Thousands Fined for Travelling Without Tickets in Railway Ticket-Checking Drive | Patna News – Times of India
Patna: The railways conducted a ticket-checking drive across various locations in the East Central Railway (ECR) on Saturday, collecting fines amounting to Rs 54 lakh from 9,580 ticketless passengers.
Saraswati Chandra, chief public relations officer (CPRO) of ECR, said, “Illegal journeys without tickets are causing inconveniences to genuine passengers travelling in the reserved coaches of long-distance mail and express trains either originating from or passing through the jurisdiction of the ECR.”
The drive covered all mail, express and local passenger trains in ECR’s five divisions – Danapur, Sonepur, Samastipur, Dhanbad, and Pt Deen Dayal Upadhaya (DDU).Main ticket-checking points included Patna, Danapur, Gaya, Sonepur, Muzaffarpur, Samastipur, Sitamarhi, Dhanbad and Gomoh stations. “The drive was successfully conducted with the help of RPF personnel and railway magistrates,” added the CPRO.
Meanwhile, 140 passengers were detained for travelling without tickets at Gulzarbagh station near Patna Sahib. While 60 passengers paid fines on the spot, 80 were forwarded to judicial custody.
“In the Danapur division, at least 3,240 passengers were found travelling without tickets while 970 passengers were penalised in the DDU division,” Chandra said. “At least 920 passengers were detained in the Dhanbad division, followed by 2,570 in Sonepur and 1,880 in Samastipur,” he added.
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