MUMBAI : A railway ticket checker caught 22,680 ticketless passengers in 2019 and collected a whopping ₹1.51 crore fine from them, an official said on Thursday. Three other TCs of the Central Railway also collected over ₹1 crore each in fines from ticketless commuters in 2019, the official said. Shinde collected ₹1.07 crore from 16035 ticketless travellers, D Kumar ₹1.02 crore from 15234 commuters, and Ravi Kumar collected ₹1.45 crore from 20657 travellers. "We felicitated them with cash reward and certificate from our general manager for their contribution," said Shivaji Sutar, chief public relations officer of Central Railway. In 2019, Central Railway earned ₹192.51 crore from 37.64 lakh cases of "ticketless and irregular" travel against ₹168.30 crore from 34.09 lakh cases in 2018, he said.

Source: Mint January 24, 2020 05:48 UTC