Fake ‘tatkal’ railway ticket racket busted, 2 agents held

In a crackdown against booking of tatkal railway tickets with pirated software and fake IDs of passengers – at the cost of genuine and bonafide rail travellers, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and crime investigation branch (CIB) of the Indian Railways, have busted a racket of illegal railway reservation with the arrest of two persons, identified as Bamb Shankar Thakur, a resident of Shimplapuri, and Akash Gupta, a resident of Dhoka Mohalla, in the city.

The duo was booked under relevant sections of the Railway Act and produced before a local court which remanded them to judicial custody.