Calcutta, May 28 :    Calcutta, May 28:  It was jamai ador time on jamai shashthi at various railway platforms, courtesy Eastern Railway. But, it was jamai ador with a difference; there was no Coke to greet the sons-in-law, no murighonto as part of lunch and no mango slice or mishti doi for dessert. Instead, the welcoming, or jamai-boron, was done by a ticket-punching machine and a receipt book. It wasn't free either, and escorting the sons-in-law were rather stern-looking police personnel. If you're still racking your brains about this rather unusual beginning, and end, to the favourite festival of Bengal's sons-in-law, well, it was nothing except a drive by Eastern Railway to catch the errant jamais who were on their way to their shoshur-bari by train, sans ticket. In all, 580 jamais were greeted in this fashion at different railway stations. Among them, 430 were released, as they had enough money to pay the fine for ticketless travelling. But, the remaining 150 had to cool their heels behind bars at Sealdah station, as they couldn't pay the fine. The railway officials, nevertheless, were laughing all the way to office. The reason: the drive netted, besides some errant sons-in-law, Rs 45,000. Senior divisional commercial manager, Sealdah, Sushil Kumar, said: 'We have been continuing the special check for the past month. But today, we earned quite a lot within a span of six hours. And it happened only because of the festival.' At 8 am, a team of ER officials, led by divisional railway manager, Sealdah, D.C. Mitra, and two additional DRMs, started their cash-rich journey from Sealdah. The drive was to have targeted the 40-km stretch till Naihati, but ended only 23 km away at Barrackpore. The reason: There wasn't any room in the compartments to accommodate any more ticketless jamais on the return journey. The team returned to office about six-and-a-half hours later at 2.35 pm, their pockets bulging with cash and the compartments brimful with the ticketless jamais. But for some railway staff, at least, it was all work and no fun on jamai shashthi. The railway authorities had to press 150 staff from the Railway Protection Force and 110 Travelling Ticket Examiners into the drive. Eleven superior officers were there as well to teach the jamais a lesson. Sealdah superintendent of railway police Gangeshwar Prasad Singh, flush with the success of the drive, was, however, a worried man. The errant sons-in-law from Belghoria, Sodepur and Barrackpore were filling up his lock-ups, scarcely leaving any room for the criminals he is more comfortable dealing with.