The Railways has caught 3.6 crore passengers travelling on wrong tickets or without one in 2022-23, a jump of almost a crore from the previous year, according to an RTI reply. Earlier, in 2019-2020, 1.10 crore people were caught travelling without tickets or with incorrect ones, in 2021-22, the tally rose to 2.7 crore, and in 2022-23, 3.6 crore. In 2020-21, the year the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, the figure stood at 32.56 lakh.
In response to the query under the Right To Information Act filed by Madhya Pradesh-based activist Chandra Shekhar Guar, the national transporter also presented data showing its revenue generated from such travellers soared in the last three years.
