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Dimapur, Sep. 1 (EMN): Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR) officials along with the Railway Protection Force (RPF) arrested two touts involved in illegal selling of railways tickets in the past two days.
On August 31, RPF personnel along with other officials and staff of CIB and local police conducted a search in one shop namely M/s PM Communication and Service located at Odalbakra, Guwahati, who was running the illegal business of selling railway e-tickets. In course of the search, RPF personnel recovered 21 railway e-tickets generated using user IDs for different persons on different dates and different trains, NFR chief PRO Subhanan Chanda stated on Tuesday. The total value of the recovered e-tickets was stated to be INR 33,718.
On being asked, the owner of the shop namely Mrinal Hazra failed to produce any IRCTC authorisation certificate and confessed generating the recovered railway e-tickets illegally for his benefit. It stated that the recovered railway e-tickets along with other relevant items were seized and the owner of the shop was also taken into custody.
Earlier on August 30, based on information and analysis of user id 'vicky0160', a joint team of RPF personnel from Dibrugarh and Tinsukia conducted a surprise check in the presence of local police at one shop namely M/s Patel and Sons in Dibrugarh and apprehended a person identified as Vicky Patel for illegal procuring and selling railway e-tickets by using personal user IDs.
On analysis of email records and storage (11 email IDs were used by the accused), a total number of 48 railway e-tickets worth INR 1,09,132 was recovered from his computer.
In this regard, one computer and printer with accessories, two mobile phones, one cheque book of Kotak Mahindra bank, one Aadhaar card and one pan card were also seized.
Further, on August 31, the train escort party, while performing duty at train No. 02501 Agartala – New Delhi AC special, detected one unclaimed hand bag containing Ganja worth INR 80,000.
The report mentioned that RPF personnel had registered a total of 654 cases of contraband smuggling with recovery of items worth INR 17,93,72,180 and arrested 185 persons from 2017 to July 2020.