In the last six months, the Central Railway (CR) has recovered Rs 71.25 crore as fine by catching 12.47 lakh ticketless travellers on its Mumbai suburban and non-suburban trains.
The CR has also detected and penalized 25,610 persons for not following Covid-19 appropriate behaviour.
According to the officials, from April 1 to September 30, 2021, a total of 12.47 lakh cases of ticketless/irregular travellers were detected in suburban and non-suburban trains (long distance trains) trains and an amount of Rs.71.25 crore was realized as penalty.
The official claimed that this is highest in terms of revenue among all zonal railways.
On the Mumbai suburban section, the railway caught 3,20,199 ticketless travellers and recovered Rs 11.79 crore as fine.
