By The Central Railways has filed cases against many passengers for victimisation pretend essential workers’ identity cards to travel on native trains in Mumbai from July to Jan, officers responsive to the matter aforementioned. it’s recovered around 600 such pretend cards likewise.
The train services were resumed for essential services staff on July fifteen months once they were suspended in March thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic. Essential care employees square measure needed to indicate their identity cards before getting into railway stations. Differently-abled passengers, cancer patients, women, and lawyers were later additionally allowed to commute by native trains.
Officials aforementioned as workplaces square measure reopening, folks try to pass trains by victimisation pretend identity cards. “During our regular checking, we’ve found several passengers attempting to travel with pretend identity cards. A majority of cards are found to be associated with pharmaceutical corporations, diagnostic and imaging centres,” aforementioned a Central Railways official.
Last week on Friday, officers recovered fifty eight pretend cards at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus.
