Section 69. Travelling without proper pass or ticket or beyond authorised distance

69. Travelling without proper pass or ticket or beyond authorised distance.— (1) If any passenger - (a) travels in a train without having a proper pass or ticket with him; or 1. Subs. by Act 18 of 2023, s. 2 and the Schedule, for certain words (w.e.f. 6-10-2023). 2. Subs. by s. 2 and the Schedule, ibid ., for "five years, or with fine which may extend to six thousand rupees, or with both" (w.e.f. 6-10-2023). (b) 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 requisition being made therefor under section 24, or travels in a train in contravention of the provisions of section 25, he shall be liable to pay, on demand of any metro railway official appointed by the metro railway administration 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. (2) If any passenger travels or attempts to travel in a carriage or by a train or travels in or on a carriage beyond the place authorised by his pass or ticket, he shall be liable to pay, on demand of any person appointed by the metro railway administration in this behalf, the excess charge mentioned in sub-section (3) in addition to any difference between any fare paid by him and the fare payable in respect of the journey he has made. (3) The excess charge referred to in sub-sections (1) and (2) shall be fifty rupees. 1[(4) If any passenger liable to pay the excess charge and fare mentioned in sub-section (1), or the excess charge and any difference of fare mentioned in sub-section (2), fails or refuses to pay the same on a demand being made therefor, any metro railway official authorised by the metro railway administration in this behalf may apply to any Metropolitan Magistrate or, as the case may be, Judicial Magistrate of the first class, for the recovery of the sum payable as if it were a fine.] (5) Any sum recovered under sub-section (4) shall, as and when it is recovered, be paid to the Consolidated Fund of India. 2 [70. Needlessly interfering with means of communication in a train.— If any passenger or any other person without reasonable and sufficient cause makes use of, or interferes with, any means provided by the metro railway administration in a metro railway for communication between passengers and metro railway official in charge of the metro railway or misuses alarm bell or emergency stop push or emergency trip system or emergency call point of the metro railway, he shall be liable to penalty which may extend to ten thousand rupees.]