{"id":629308,"date":"2024-01-19T10:29:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T04:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=629308"},"modified":"2024-01-19T12:31:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T07:01:49","slug":"south-western-railway-cracks-down-on-ticketless-travel-collects-highest-ever-fines-from-over-6-lakh-passengers-in-9-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/south-western-railway-cracks-down-on-ticketless-travel-collects-highest-ever-fines-from-over-6-lakh-passengers-in-9-months\/","title":{"rendered":"South Western Railway cracks down on ticketless travel, collects highest-ever fines from over 6 lakh passengers in 9 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a remarkable move against ticketless travel, the South Western Railway (SWR) announced its successful detection and penalisation of 6.27 lakh cases from April 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023, collecting a hefty fine of Rs 46.31 crore. The Bengaluru division of SWR emerged as a frontrunner, booking 3.68 lakh cases and amassing fines amounting to Rs 28.26 crore. <\/p>\n<p>The SWR highlighted its commitment to curbing ticketless travel, citing a 9.95% increase in fines compared to the corresponding period last year. The Railway zone said in a statement that the fines collected during this period are reported to be the highest ever since the inception of the South Western Railway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a remarkable move against ticketless travel, the South Western Railway (SWR) announced its successful detection and penalisation of 6.27 lakh cases from April 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023, collecting a hefty fine of Rs 46.31 crore. The Bengaluru division of SWR emerged as a frontrunner, booking 3.68 lakh cases and amassing fines amounting to Rs 28.26 crore. The SWR highlighted its commitment to curbing ticketless travel, citing a 9.95% increase in fines compared to the corresponding period last year. The Railway zone said in a statement that the fines collected during this period are reported to be the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}