ECR: 8 months, 9.59 lakh cases of ticketless travelling!

Patna

In a special drive, over 90,380 persons were caught either travelling without ticket or with unauthorised tickets in the month of December last year under East Central Railway (ECR) and a penalty of Rs 3.21 crore recovered from them.

This was 7.61 per cent rise in number of persons caught in comparison to December 2013 and 3.98 per cent rise in fine collected, an ECR release said here today.

Bihar, Jharkhand,Uttar Pradesh and (a small stretch in) Madhya Pradesh are part of ECR headquartered at Hajipur.

During the period from April to November 2014, a total of 9.59 lakh such cases of people travelling without ticket or making journey in higher classes on ordinary ticket and a total of Rs 36.10 crore recovered, the release said.

It said 3.69 lakh cases of goods being taken without booking during April to December last year and a fine of Rs 2.14 crore recovered from such cases, it said.

Danapur, Mughalsarai, Dhanbad, Samastipur and Sonepur are the five divisions under ECR.

The ECR release said that 858 ticket checking cases were organised in December.

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