Western Railway collected a record fine of Rs 114.18 crore during ticket checking drives conducted this year. The ticket checking team held several ticket checking drives from April to October 2022, and recovered the amount. A portion of this amount was received from more than one lakh ticketless passengers, and irregular passengers, meaning those who bought a general ticket but travelled in a higher class compartment, or rode beyond the distance that they bought tickets for, including unbooked luggage cases.

The fine of Rs 114.18 crore is an increase of 212.22 per cent over the corresponding period last year, which was Rs 36.57 crore.