The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of Western Railway (WR) has detected 47 cases of touting or illegal sale of tickets, with a total of 183 e-tickets, valued at Rs 5.93 lakh, seized in January.
Sumit Thakur, chief public relations officer of WR, said the RPF WR formed special teams to launch special drives against touts. “It was observed that touts were booking tickets using several fake identity cards, including those of some authorised IRCTC agents, with illegal software to issue tickets, thereby charging extra money from passengers. In fact, on a single day, seven different cases of illegal touting were detected across Western Railway’s Mumbai, Bhavnagar, Ratlam and Ahmedabad Divisions,” said Thakur.
