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Dear Client, Based on the facts you have described, this incident will have absolutely no adverse effect on your government job police verification.
RPF detained you for a short period of time as part of an awareness programme and collected a Rs. 200 fine on PhonePe along with making you sign papers noting your personal details, and then released you. No FIR was registered. No case was filed before a Railway Magistrate. No arrest memo was prepared. No court convicted you of anything.
RPF records of such petty offences are confined to their records alone and are not considered for character verification by general police, because the police are not aware of everything that happened outside their jurisdiction. The records so created by RPF shall be confined to their records alone. More importantly, you were never arrested or detained in the legal sense, it was a petty offence punishable with fine only and you were not produced before any court. The answers to all standard government attestation form questions like whether you have been arrested, prosecuted, detained, or fined by a court of law are all no, because none of these things happened. The railway police fined you, not any court, so even the question about being fined by a court does not apply.
The government attestation form asks about arrest, prosecution, detention, conviction, and fines imposed by a court. The payment made by RPF to Railway officials via PhonePe for an insignificant offence during an awareness campaign is not an "illegal" transaction because there was no due process involved with respect to the crime and therefore cannot be classified as any of these types. You are to mark all relevant questions with “No”, and go ahead without hesitation. There is no threat to your career in the government sector as a result of this situation.
I hope this helps, and if you have any further issues, do not hesitate to contact us.