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Three Chennai Railway Division ticket checking clerks have collected Rs 3 crore as a fine.
This amount has been recovered from unauthorized passengers between April 1, 2022 and March 16, 2023.
Traveling without a ticket on a train is a legal offense under the Railway Act.
New Delhi. If you unknowingly travel without a ticket on the train, this mistake can cost you dearly, because the Railways have continually shown severity towards ticketless passengers. This can be gauged by the fact that in the last year only 3 ticket check clerks in the country recovered a fine of 1-1 crore. This is just the number of unauthorized passengers recovered between April 1, 2022 and March 16, 2023 by three Chennai Railway Division ticket verification staff.
According to a railway press release, Deputy Chief Ticket Inspector S Nand Kumar collected Rs 1.55 crore by imposing fines in 27,787 cases of travel without proper tickets and reserved luggage. This is one of the highest earnings of any ticket verification staff to date.
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Chief Ticket Inspector Roseline Arokia Mary has also achieved a milestone by collecting Rs 1.03 crore in fines, making her the highest paid ticket checking clerk in Indian Railways.
In addition to this, the senior ticket examiner Sakthivel collected Rs 1.10 crore as a fine. In a statement, the Railways thanked the staff and called on passengers to travel with the proper tickets.
traveling without a train ticket is a legal offense
Explain that according to the Railway Law, it is illegal to travel on a train without a ticket or without a proper ticket, and there are also rules related to carrying luggage during the trip. If a passenger breaks these rules, he or she may be fined or imprisoned, or both.
According to section 138 of the Railway Act, traveling on a train without a sufficient ticket or pass is punishable by a fine. According to this, for the distance traveled by the passenger or the station from which the train departed, the normal single fare and the additional fare, i.e. ₹250/- or equal to the fare, whichever is higher, are paid as a fine. .
At the same time, as per Section 137 of the Railways Act, traveling improperly can lead to 6 months in jail, a fine of Rs 1000 or both. Apart from this, there is a penalty and fine provision in different sections of the Railway Act for unnecessarily triggering the alarm and carrying out other illegal activities.
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FIRST POSTED: March 19, 2023, 4:34pm IST
