Northern Railways busts major racket in rail ticketing

In a major investigation, Northern Railway Vigilance Department unearthed a serious fraud in the sale of rail tickets during the heavy festive rush period in Delhi area. The modus operandi by the Unauthorized Ticketing Agency (UTA) involved sale of already booked rail tickets on commonly- sounding names like N Kumar, S Kumar etc. and where the name did not match with the ticket-seekers’ own names, the UTA demanded photos from the ticket purchaser and issued Fake IDs by affixing his/her photo in an already printed Identity Proof of a fake institution. The agents used to book PRS tickets in advance from small PRS centres in Sonpur Division of East Central Railway. The modus operandi uncovered was a ground-breaking finding  in  recent times since the notification of the Ministry of Railways for carrying of valid identify proof by rail passengers while traveling in reserved compartments in trains.