Pakistan Railways has collected an amount of Rs 74.8 million from ticket-less passengers in a crackdown during the threetwo months with the help of railway police and train staffers. “Around 58,446 passengers found travelling without tickets in differenttrains and collected the said amount from them, which is deposited inthe official bank account of the department,” sources in the Ministrysaid Sunday.
They said that it was not the first time that action was taken on alarge scale against ticket-less passengers, adding that these types ofcrackdowns had taken place daily. The sources said that ticketless travelling was illegal, and those whowere caught without a ticket were charged a ticket price for the wholejourney of the train besides the penalty.—NNI
