LUCKNOW: A fortnight after Chennai division of southern railways (SR) zone claimed that one of their tickets checking staff collected Rs 1.55 crore, highest ever penalty from without ticket passengers in the financial year 2022-23, the Northern railways (NR) Lucknow division on Friday announced that chief ticket inspector (CTI) of Varanasi junction has surpassed the record and collected Rs 1.60 crore till February.
The CTI was identified as Mahesh Kumar Yadav who penalized 19,990 ticketless passengers between 1 April 2022 to February 23, 2023 and collected Rs 1,60,45,120.