Western Railway on Tuesday said that it has collected almost Rs 71 crore as fines from between April and July this year. The amount includes over Rs 93 lakh that was recovered from Mumbai AC local trains, officials said. 

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.

"The highly motivated ticket checking team under the supervision of senior commercial officers of Western Railway organised several ticket checking drives during the period from April to July 2025, thereby recovering an amount to the tune of Rs 70.98 crore, which is almost 24 per cent higher than the corresponding period last year as well as 11 per cent higher over the target set by Railway Board. This also includes Rs 19.55 crore from Mumbai suburban section," the statement said.