A 44-year-old woman from an affluent family, caught for travelling without a ticket on a local train, chose to go to jail for a week instead of paying Rs260 fine.
The outraged woman said the authorities should first arrest and recover the Rs9,000-plus crores that liquor baron Vijay Mallya owes the country’s banks. The woman was caught by a ticket checker on Sunday at Mahalaxmi station.
When they told her to cough up the fine, she said they should first arrest Mallya, the Railway Police said.
“She was produced in the magistrate’s court today (Tuesday) and asked to pay the fine. But she declined and chose to go to jail for seven days,” said a security officer at the Mumbai division of Western Railway.