The Western Railway on Wednesday said that it has collected over Rs 134 crore as fines during intensive ticket checking drives during the months of April 2024 to February, 2025.

In an official statement, the Western Railway said that in order to ensure hassle-free, comfortable travel and better services to all bonafide passengers over Western Railway, intensive ticket checking drives are being carried out continuously over Mumbai suburban local services, Mail/Express as well as passenger trains and holiday special trains so as to curb the menace of ticketless/irregular passengers.