Rlys country's keystone, efforts to jeopardise ticketing system ought to be derailed: SC

Indian Railways is a keystone of our country's infrastructure and any effort to disrupt the integrity and stability of the ticketing system ought to be stopped on its tracks, the Supreme Court said on Thursday.

NEW DELHI:

A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Prashant Kumar Mishra was hearing two separate appeals of two men accused of fraud in railway ticketing. "The Indian Railways is a keystone of our country's infrastructure. It carries around 673 crore passengers annually and has a tremendous impact on the economy of this country. Any effort to disrupt the integrity and stability of the ticketing system has to be stopped on its tracks," the bench said. The appeals were over the interpretation of Section 143 of the Railways Act, 1989, which provides for imposing of penalty for unauthorised businesses of procuring and supply of railway tickets.