allahabad over a hundred personnel of security forces accompanied by a team of vigilance officials of north central railway on wednesday carried out raids against ticketless travel aboard the purshottam and mahanagri express trains the raids were conducted between the up and down allahabad mirzapur routes the raiding team boarded the purshottam express on platform no 6 at 720 am and began the checking scores of ticketless travellers were penalised on the spot and challans were issued holders of monthly season ticket mst too were thoroughly checked and those holding general compartment mst were found travelling in sleeper and ac coaches the team also checked the quality of food being supplied from the pantry car of the train and did not find any thing objectionable as the train reached near the cod cheoki station the train engine developed a snag as a fallout of which the train had to be detained for around an hour before a separate engine was dispatched from the allahabad junction station and the train continued its onward journey the raiding team alighted at the mirzapur station from where they boarded the allahabad bound mahanagari express train a similar exercise was carried out in the entire train and defaulters were penalised ncr officials informed that similar drives would continue in the future to check the menace of ticketless travel and chain pulling