Northern Rly cracks down on ticketless travelers

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A massive raid was conducted by the Northern Railways at Gurgaon and Sabzi Mandi Railway stations on Tuesday in which it collected about Rsone-and-half lakh towards penalty in just few hours. The team, led by Assistant Commercial Manager (Ticketing) Delhi Division KC Meena, conducted raids in which it collected Rs41,330 as fares from ticketless travellers on various trains crossing, in addition to RRs96,750 penalty on the same fare. Passengers were also penalised for overloading of luggage and traced packages without any tariff.

The team, comprised of 31 ticket checking staff, nine RPF security personnel and registered 394 Cases of various sections against the defaulters, was moved by a special bus with a devised strategy to conduct raids based on inputs.

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