Tatkal booking scam: RPF arrests ticket tout in Vizag

E-tickets worth Rs 14.83 Lakhs were detected by Railway Protection Force, Visakhapatnam in a raid conducted on Tuesday. RPF has also detected an illegal software ANMS which is used to manipulate and hack the IRCTC e-ticket portal and generate Tatkal railway tickets in a faster way.

Visakhapatnam:Railway Protection Force, Visakhapatnam has launched its biggest crackdown on railway ticket agents and touts by detecting an illegal software ANMS which is used to manipulate and hack the IRCTC e-ticket portal and generate Tatkal railway tickets in a faster way.

Railway Protection Force, Visakhapatnam

A special team of RPF has conducted the raid in which tickets worth Rs 14.83 lakhs were detected on Tuesday.

The ANMS software helps in getting tickets multiple times of normal speed and book tickets by using fake personal user IDs at a time simultaneously. This software also provides facilities like auto-fill of passenger details, train details, travel plans, bank details, auto-login IRCTC, so that the agents could able to generate tickets within a fraction of seconds by using high-speed internet and highly configurated computers. Hence, the genuine passengers are deprived of tatkal tickets at the opening time.

The special RPF team consisting of Inspectors P. Srinivasa Rao and R.K. Rao conducted a search at SP Tours and Travels and seized 582 railway tickets valued Rs 11.31 lakhs and arrested the owner Samir Kumar Pradhan.

"Since last three months RPF Visakhapatnam was conducting intensive raids against illegal ticketing and in this process, the team was able to detect on illegal software which is being used by the racket pan India and this is the first case detected in East Coast Railway," Jitendra Srivastava, Sr Divisional Security Commissioner said.

Apart from this, another search was conducted at Tatichetlapalem and seized 129 e-tickets valued Rs 3.52 lakhs and made an arrest.

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