The Railways has caught 3.6 crore passengers travelling on wrong tickets or without one in 2022-23, a jump of almost a crore from the previous year, according to an RTI reply.

Earlier, in 2019-2020, 1.10 crore people were caught travelling without tickets or with incorrect ones, in 2021-22, the tally rose to 2.7 crore, and in 2022-23, 3.6 crore. In 2020-21, the year the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, the figure stood at 32.56 lakh.