Maligaon, April 29 (MExN): In a bid to keep a check on unauthorized travelling, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has been conducting regular ticket checking drives.
With these intensive ticket checking drives, NFR has detected 448392 cases of passengers travelling without ticket/irregular ticket and un-booked luggage during the period from April 2021 to March 2022.
An amount of Rs 23.36 crore was realized from the offenders as fare and penalty. This is about 840.83% more in terms of numbers of penalty cases detected and 1028.50% higher in terms of earnings for the corresponding period of previous year.
Moreover during checking over various stations and trains, RPF of NFR apprehended 50701 persons travelling without proper tickets from April 2021 to March 2022.
In these cases 25 persons were also prosecuted and fined under various sections of Railways Act and 16 cases were registered against offenders. This was stated by Sabyasachi De, Chief Public Relations Officer, NFR.
