Archive · 11 Aug 2026
Mumbai Railways Fine 233 Ticketless Passengers; Seek Doubled Checking Staff
Some people ride trains without buying tickets, and that costs the railway money.
To stop this, train workers in Mumbai held a special checking day at Diva station.
They found 233 people without tickets and asked them to pay fines.
In total, the fines added up to more than one lakh rupees.
Trains in Mumbai are very busy, with more than 65 lakh passengers riding every day.
Some riders now try to trick inspectors with fake tickets made on phones or computers.
That makes it harder for workers to tell if a ticket is real.
So the railways want to hire many more ticket checkers.
Central Railway and Western Railway both asked for almost twice as many checkers.
The railway also tells passengers to buy tickets on the RailOne phone app to save time.
Railway authorities fined 233 passengers a total of ₹1,04,830 during a fortress ticket-checking drive at Diva station on Monday, August 10.
Officials have flagged a rise in forged tickets, AI-generated or manipulated ticket screenshots and fraudulent ticketing applications.
Central Railway and Western Railway have sought nearly double the ticket-checking staff across Mumbai's suburban network.
Central Railway, with about 1,400 checkers, seeks around 2,800 personnel; Western Railway, with about 1,100, proposes 2,300–2,400.
The two networks handle more than 65 lakh passengers daily, and commuters are urged to use the RailOne app to buy valid tickets.
- Who
- Mumbai's suburban railway authorities, including Central Railway and Western Railway, and the 233 passengers fined at Diva station
- What
- A fortress ticket-checking drive that fined 233 ticketless passengers ₹1,04,830, along with a proposal to nearly double ticket-checking staff
- When
- Monday, August 10
- Where
- Diva station on Mumbai's suburban railway network
- Why
- To curb ticketless travel and rising fake, AI-generated and app-based ticket fraud, and to strengthen revenue protection and enforcement
- Passengers fined
- 233
- Total penalty collected
- ₹1,04,830
- Location of drive
- Diva station, Mumbai
- Date of drive
- Monday, August 10
- Central Railway checkers
- ~1,400 currently; ~2,800 proposed
- Western Railway checkers
- ~1,100 currently; ~2,300–2,400 proposed
- Daily suburban ridership
- Over 65 lakh passengers
- Railway Board benchmark
- 1 ticket checker per 1,000 passengers