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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Drug peddler's property worth Rs 1 crore attached in Srinagar
Srinagar (PTI): Property worth Rs 1 crore belonging to a notorious drug peddler was on Saturday attached in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar, police said.
A double-storey house on eight marlas of land situated at Wantpora Eidgah, belonging to Basit Bilal Dar, a notorious drug peddler, valued at approximately Rs 1 crore, a police spokesperson said.
He said Dar is involved in two cases registered under various sections of the NDPS Act.
During investigation, it was established that the accused had acquired the said property through illicit proceeds generated from drug trafficking activities, the spokesperson said.
Consequently, the property was attached under the provisions of the NDPS Act. The attachment proceedings were conducted in the presence of the two independent witnesses, strictly in accordance with the prescribed legal procedures, he said.
As per the attachment order, the owner has been restrained from selling, leasing, transferring, altering, or creating any third-party interest in the property till further orders, the spokesperson added.
