patna the east central railways ecr detained around 330 lakh people for travelling without ticket wt in trains and collected a fine of rs1990 crore from them this month the ecr had launched a massive ticket checking drive in its five divisions including danapur sonepur samastipur pt deen dayal upadhaya and dhanbadaccording to ecr chief public relations officer cpro birendra kumar the drive is being conducted by the ticket checking teams assisted by rpf in all the divisions out of the 330 lakh passengers found travelling without ticket those who paid the penalty were set free but those who could not were forwarded to judicial custody he said in danapur division alone altogether 87898 people were nabbed travelling without tickets and railways realised rs 550 crore as penalty from them while as many as 74351 people were detained in sonepur division and for travelling wt a fine of rs 412 crore was collected from them the cpro said in pt deen dayal upadhaya division ticket checking teams nabbed 48425 people and collected rs 291 crore as penalty while 68208 passengers were caught in the samastipur division