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The Salem Railway Division of the Southern Railway has collected ₹21.71 crore successful punishment done summons checking drives from January to November this year
Members of the ticket-checking squads of the Salem Division behaviour regular checks connected committee trains and connected railway premises to observe assorted malpractices. During these checks, they place cases of persons travelling without tickets, irregular travel, unbooked luggage, etc. and levy penalties accordingly.
This year, implicit the past 11 months, the summons checking squads detected 1,56,247 cases of ticketless question and collected a full magnitude of ₹13.56 crore arsenic punishment from the offenders, which is an summation by 7.3% successful the punishment collected compared with the corresponding play past year. During January-November, 2024, the part had collected ₹12.63 crore arsenic penalty.
Moreover, 1,41,271 cases of irregular question were besides recorded successful the past 11 months and ₹8.10 crore was collected arsenic penalty, , marking an summation of 10.8% successful the magnitude collected arsenic against past twelvemonth (₹7.31 crore).
From January to November, 850 cases of unbooked/carrying luggage exceeding the permitted quantity were detected. The full magnitude collected arsenic punishment for these cases was ₹4.65 lakh. This is an summation of 30.9% successful the magnitude collected arsenic compared with the aforesaid play past twelvemonth (₹3.55 lakh).
The squads detected these irregularities/offences during the 57,169 checks conducted during the past 11 months and 2,98,368 cases were booked.
The Railway officials said that during November 2025 alone, a full of ₹1.47 crore successful punishment was collected by the squads, including ₹1.11 crore for ticketless travel, ₹34.96 lakh for irregular question and ₹35,914 for unbooked/carrying luggage exceeding the permitted quantity, the officials added.
