Konkan Railways collects Rs 1.95cr in fine from 6,675 passengers travelling without tickets in Dec
Udupi: Konkan Railways has collected more than Rs 1.95 crore as fine from as many as 6,675 passengers for traveling without tickets in December 2023, with the ticket checking system implemented recently in the trains to provide information to concerned authorities on such violations by passengers, the Konkan Railways officials have said, in a recent press release.
In the last quarter of the current financial year, between October and December 2023, Konkan Railways collected a fine amount of about Rs 5.61 crore from 18,466 passengers for ticketless journey in the trains, the press release added.
Urging passengers to unfailingly purchase tickets for their respective journeys to also help the Konkan Railways prevent any sort of inconvenience to passengers due to violation of the rule to travel with tickets, the officials have stated in the press release that Konkan Railways will retain the system to regularly check the tickets of passengers traveling in its trains.
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Four of family killed as car jumps divider on highway in Gujarat's Panchmahal
Godhra (Gujarat) (PTI): Four members of a family were killed, and one sustained grievous injuries after their speeding car jumped a divider on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway corridor in Gujarat's Panchmahal district on Monday, police said.
The car driver lost control of the wheels near Kalol. As a result, the four-wheeler jumped the divider and veered off to the other side of the highway, an official from Kalol police station said.
Soon after the accident, some locals rushed to the scene and also alerted the police. Efforts were made to pull out the people trapped in the car.
Four persons died on the spot, while one suffered injuries, the official said.
The deceased were members of a family from Vadodara and were returning from Rajasthan when the tragedy struck, the official said.
They have been identified as Sajid Iqbal Khinji (55), Ilyas Iqbal Khinji (50), Ishaq Iqbal Khinji (48) and Rehan Azgar Khinji (35).
