GUWAHATI: The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) recently apprehended two persons for illegally selling railway e-tickets, stated a press release.
The RPF recovered 19 railway tickets worth more than Rs 27,000. The apprehended persons have been booked under Section 143 of the Railway Act.
In an incident on February 2, information was received regarding touting activities by one shop named 'Sonu Computer Shop' located at Barlangfar in Karbi Anglong. A CIB team and RPF staff of Lumding, with the help of local police and local witnesses, conducted a raid on the shop. During the raid, they recovered 13 railway e-tickets worth Rs 20,456, which were generated by using personal user IDs. The owner of the shop could not give any satisfactory reply regarding the recovered e-tickets and the person was taken into custody. In another incident on February 1, a joint team of the RPF of Samsi and CIB of Katihar conducted a drive at PRS counter of Malahar Railway Station. During the drive, six railway tickets worth Rs 6,631, which were generated by using personal user IDs, were recovered.
All the recovered railway tickets along with one mobile phone with two SIMs, one Aadhar card, one ATM card etc., and cash worth Rs 320 were seized and the person was taken into custody.
It may be mentioned here that RPF of NF Railway detected 121 cases of touting activities and apprehended 134 persons involved in illegal selling of railway e-tickets between January 1, 2021 to February 2 last.
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