The Western Railway's Mumbai division on Monday said that it conducted massive ticket checking drives from April to December 2023 and was successful in collecting Rs 128 crore as fines.

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 over the Mumbai suburban local services, Mail/Express as well as passenger trains and holiday special trains to curb the menace of ticketless/irregular passengers.