GUWAHATI: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has detected 749093 number of passenger travelling without ticket / irregular ticket during the period from January to December, 2019.
According to a press release, an amount of Rs. 51.56 cr was realized from the offender as fare and penalty.
During the checking, 29455 cases of passenger travelling with un-booked luggage during journey were also found and another Rs 37.55 lakh were realized from them as freight charges.
Thus, a total of Rs. 51.94 cr was realized from 778548 passengers without ticket or irregular ticket and un-booked luggage cases showing about 25.55 per cent more in terms of numbers of penalty cases detected and 21.07 per cent higher in terms of earnings for the corresponding period of last year, it said in the press statement.
