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As per the provisions of the Jan Vishwas Act, 2026, the minimal penalty beneath Sections 137 & 138 of the Railway Act, 1989 has been elevated from ₹250 to ₹500 💰 with impact from 20 June 2026 📅.

🎫 Passengers are requested to journey with a legitimate…

— DRM – mumbai Central, WR (@drmbct) June 20, 2026

In a gazette notification issued on June 19, the Ministry of Railways said: “In train of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of part 1 of the Jan Vishwas (Modification of Provisions) Act, 2026 (8 of 2026), the Central Authorities hereby appoints the date of publication of this notification because the date on which the provisions of the mentioned Act, in as far as it pertains to serial quantity 52…the Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989) respectively, shall come into drive.”

What occurs in the event you journey and not using a practice ticket

In line with the Jan Vishwas (Modification of Provisions) Act, 2026, serial quantity 52, for part 137, the next part shall be substituted, specifically:

“137. Fraudulently travelling or trying to journey with out correct cross or ticket.— (1) If any individual, with intent to defraud a railway administration,—

(a) enters or stays in any carriage on a railway or travels in a practice in contravention of part 55; or

(b) makes use of or makes an attempt to make use of a single cross or a single ticket which has already been used on a earlier journey, or within the case of a return ticket, a half thereof which has already been so used,

he shall be liable to pay the fare for the space which he has travelled, or the place there’s any doubt as to the station from which he began, the fare from the station from which the practice initially began, or if the tickets of passengers travelling within the practice have been examined because the authentic beginning of the practice, the fare from the place the place the tickets have been so examined or, in case of their having been examined greater than as soon as, have been final examined:

Offered that he shall additionally pay the surplus prices equal to the due prices talked about herein, topic to a minimal of 5 hundred rupees or the costs notified by the Central Authorities

(2) If any passenger liable to pay the surplus cost and the fare talked about in sub-section (1), fails or refuses to pay the identical on a requirement being made beneath this part, the authorised railway servant might apply to the competent courtroom, for the restoration of the sum payable, and the courtroom if happy that the sum is payable shall order it to be so recovered, and will order that the individual answerable for the fee shall in default of fee be punishable with imprisonment for a time period which can lengthen to 6 months, or with positive which can lengthen to 5 hundred rupees, or with each.”