Paste ads in local, go straight to jail

Central Railway has come out with stringent guidelines for the RPF to jail people who put up stickers and ads inside train compartments

You may soon be able to actually see the walls of local trains that now only peek through from underneath the layers of stickers and poster ads glued inside the coaches.

Central Railway's (CR) general manager Kul Bhushan has instructed the Railway Police Force (RPF) to put people who illegally paste these stickers behind bars, instead of letting them off with a fine.


Too many posters on the walls of locals have become eyesores

During a visit, Bhushan was reportedly upset when he noticed the walls of coaches, thick with a pile of stickers and asked the RPF to take strict action against offenders who put these up.

"The GM has given instructions that instead of taking a fine, the RPF has to prosecute offenders from now on," said Chief Public Relations Officer of Central Railway, Sriniwas Mudgerikar.
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"Apart from this, officials concerned will be held responsible if stickers are found to have been put up when the train was under their charge."

For instance, if it is found that stickers were pasted when the train was in the car shed, the yard official will be held responsible.

Last year, only 37 people were sent to jail for this but that is because the rules were lax. The CR says it is now serious about implementing this rule.

V K Dhaka, additional chief security officer, CR, said, "We have been penalising offenders since long but this time it will be more intensified.

We have already started the work after the GM's initiative and will clean up the train walls and punish those who paste stickers."

The offenders will be called on the numbers mentioned in the sticker and prosecuted.

"We will prosecute them and present them in court. They can be imprisoned or fined depending on the number of stickers found," said Dhaka.

The Rulebook
Rules 144 and 166 of the Railway Act are applicable on the offender.
The penalty for putting up ads illegally in trains is Rs 100 to Rs 500 along with a month's imprisonment.