New Delhi: The Railway Police Force (RPF) busted an e-ticketing racket on Monday and has arrested three people in this connection from Mau of Uttar Pradesh.
The joint team of Railway, Basti and Gonda police has arrested Amit Gupta, Nandan Gupta and Abdul Rahman who were operating the gang at the behest of Hamid.
Earlier, the Railway Protection Officer named Hamid Ashraf as the 'mastermind of the racket', who was involved in the bombing of a Gonda school in 2019.
Hamid operates through illegal software ANMS to bypass IRCTC login captcha, booking captcha and bank OTP to generate tickets.
Three laptops, five mobiles worth Rs 700000 along with 261 tatkal and general tickets along with, 150 fake IRCTC IDs were seized from their possession.
According to reports, Ashraf has been running his business by hacking the IRCTC site for the last three years, due to which railways suffered a major loss.
In 2016, the CBI team raided in Basti and arrested Hamid Ashraf after which the gang was revealed.
Reportedly, they sold the software to thousands of people all over the country after they hacked the IRCTC site to book tickets.
A few days back, RPF arrested a madrassa-educated and self-taught software developer from Jharkhand suspected to have money laundering and terror financing links.
The accused identified as Ghulam Mustafa was arrested from Bhubaneshwar.
Meanwhile, NIA, CID, Basti, and Gonda police are searching for mastermind Hamid Ashraf.
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