The Ferozepur division, under which Amritsar railway station falls, imposed a penalty on 4,275 ticketless passengers and collected a fine of over Rs 32 lakh in the past 11 months.
The ticket checking team of the division conducts intensive ticket checking in trains to curb ticketless and irregular travel.
In Amritsar, 25,027 passengers were found traveling without a ticket or traveling irregularly in February by ticket checking staff and chief ticket inspectors of the division and about Rs 2.51 crore was recovered from them as fine.
Regular checking is done at main stations of the division to keep the railway stations of the division clean and to prevent the general public from spreading filth at the stations.
