Maligaon, February 4 (MExN): The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of NF Railway apprehended two persons for illegal selling of railway e-tickets in different incidents.
On receiving information regarding touting activities in one “Sonu computer shop” located at Barlangfar near Barlangfar railway station, Karbi Anglong (Assam), CIB team and RPF staff of Lumding with the help of local police and witness raided the shop on February 2.
During raid, they recovered 13 railway e-tickets worth Rs 20,456 (approx), 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, stated a press release issued by Sabyasachi De, Chief Public Relations Officer, NFR.
In another incident on February 1, RPF team of Samsi jointly with CIB team of Katihar conducted drive at PRS counter of Malahar railway station. During the drive, six railway tickets total worth Rs 6,631 (approx), generated by using personal user IDs were recovered. As such, all the recovered railway tickets along with one mobile phone with two SIMs, one Aadhar card, one ATM card etc and cash Rs 320 were seized. The person was taken into custody.
In both the incidents, cases were registered under section 143 of the Railway Act.
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 from January 1, 2021 to February 2, 2022.
