GUWAHATI: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of the Northeast Frontier (NF) Railway conducted raids and searches at different locations during the last few days to check illegal sale of railway tickets. During the raids conducted between March 11 and March 18, 344 railway tickets, worth more than Rs 3.44 lakh, were recovered and the RPF also apprehended 23 persons during this period for illegal involvement in procuring and supplying of railway tickets, stated a press release.
In an incident on March 18, an RPF team of Agartala a conducted drive against illegal business of railway e-ticketing at a shop named 'Ramthakur Enterprise', located at Jogendranagar of West Tripura (Tripura). During the raid and search, they apprehended the shop owner and recovered 10 past railway e-tickets, worth about Rs 7,000, which were generated by using personal user ID. In this regard, Inspector of Protection Force, Agartala registered a case under section 143 of Railways Act. On that day, a decoy check was conducted at the shop of 'SS & MS Digital Photo Studio" situated at Damcherra, North Tripura by the special RPF team of Dharmanagar and obtained one railway e-ticket. An extra charge was taken by one who generated the ticket at the shop. Accordingly, a raid was conducted at the said shop with the assistance of local police and the person was apprehended. A total 14 railway e-tickets worth about Rs 59,696, which were generated by using personal user IDs, were recovered. In this regard, Inspector of Protection Force, Dharmanagar registered a case under section 143 of Railways Act.
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