By Admin 
According to the category you book tickets in the railway, the railway provides you facility. For example, if you want to travel at low cost, then you can travel from the current ticket i.e. General category. In this coach, the railway provides you instead of traveling and traveling to the passengers. If you pay some more rent, then you can take the service of sleeper class, in which the railway gives you the facility of sleeping by spreading your feet.
If you spend a little more then you can travel in third AC. In this class, you get AC as well as AC. In this, you get blankets, bedsheets and pillows so that you can do your journey comfortably. However, many people take wrong advantage of this facility of Railways and steal blankets, pillows or bedsheets and bring home. Let us tell you how big a crime it is and how much punishment you can be.
How many blankets, bedsheets and pillows are stolen
According to media reports, in the year 2018, there was a report on the theft of blankets, bedsheets and pillows inside the Indian Railways, stating that 2 lakh towels, 81 thousand bedsheets and 7 thousand blankets were stolen from the railway. The Railways has made provision of both fine and punishment to prevent such theft. According to the Railway Property Act 1996, if you are caught while stealing for the first time, then you may have to pay a 1-year jail sentence and a fine of 1 thousand rupees, but if you do such an act again and again, you will be fined with a increased fine with a 5-year prison.
Railways suffer losses in millions
Every year the theft of blankets, bedsheets and pillows causes a loss of lakhs of rupees to the Railways. Railways suffered crores due to the theft of millions of blankets, bedsheets and pillows in the year 2017-18.
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