narrative on "Travelling without ticket"
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Travelling without a pass or ticket.—If a passenger travels without a proper pass or ticket and his intention to defraud the Railway Administration cannot be proved, he should be dealt with under section 138 of the Railways Act which reads as under—
"Section 138—(1) If any passenger—
(a) being in or having alighted from a train, fails or refuses to present for examination or to deliver up his pass or ticket immediately on demand being made there for under section 54, or
(b) travels in a train in contravention of the provisions of section 55, he shall be liable to pay, on the demand of any railway servant authorised in this behalf, the excess charge mentioned in sub-section (3) in addition to the ordinary single fare for the distance which he has travelled or, where there is any doubt as to the station from which he started, the ordinary, single fare from the station from which the train originally started, or, if the tickets of passengers travelling in the train have been examined since the original starting of the train, the ordinary single fare from the place where the tickets were so examined or in the case of their having been examined more than once, were last examined.