RPF cracks railway e-ticket racket, arrests three agents

  • | Wednesday | 21st November, 2018

Our team recovered 1,277 e-tickets worth Rs 19.61 lakh.“The team also seized several computers, hard disk and identification cards from the agents. A team was formed who kept tab on the three telecommunication stores in Shamshabad for a week. Thereafter a raid was conducted to catch the men red handed. They were booked under the Railway Act.Speaking with TOI, RPF, Agra division, senior commandant S Z Khan said, “We had been receiving an input from IRCTC about local agents using multiple IDs to book e-tatkal tickets for sleeper and AC class berths. During interrogation, the trio claimed that they were using at least 15-20 IDs together to book e-tatkal tickets and made up to Rs 2,000 margin per ticket,” added officer Khan.The drive exposed how travel agents fraudulently corner tickets and sell them at a premium while thousands of passengers queue up in vain at reservation counters or click unsuccessfully at their computers.

AGRA: Under a special drive against agents who fraudulently use multiple user IDs to book confirmed railway e-tickets, including tatkal, on IRCTC, Railway Protection Force (RPF) team nabbed three men from Agra.On Tuesday morning, a special task force of RPF led by inspector B P Singh of Agra Cantt police station conducted a raid in three telecommunication stores in Shamshabad market and seized over 1,200 railway e-tickets worth Rs 19 lakh.The apprehended men were identified as Rahul Kumar Gupta, Mohan Singh and Rohit Gupta. They were booked under the Railway Act.Speaking with TOI, RPF, Agra division, senior commandant S Z Khan said, “We had been receiving an input from IRCTC about local agents using multiple IDs to book e-tatkal tickets for sleeper and AC class berths. A team was formed who kept tab on the three telecommunication stores in Shamshabad for a week. Thereafter a raid was conducted to catch the men red handed. Our team recovered 1,277 e-tickets worth Rs 19.61 lakh.“The team also seized several computers, hard disk and identification cards from the agents. During interrogation, the trio claimed that they were using at least 15-20 IDs together to book e-tatkal tickets and made up to Rs 2,000 margin per ticket,” added officer Khan.The drive exposed how travel agents fraudulently corner tickets and sell them at a premium while thousands of passengers queue up in vain at reservation counters or click unsuccessfully at their computers.

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