Bengaluru: The Railway Protection Force busted a multi crore ticket booking fraud and apprehended two miscreants who hacked the railway booking website and used the ANMS Tatkal software to book tickets.
The ticketing racket seems to have been working all around the nation and the police as well as RPF are making all efforts to snub the fraud and catch all the agents involved in the fraudulent scheme.
The accused arrested by the police are Gulam Mustafa (26), from Jharkhand, and Hanumantharaju M (37), from Peenya.
Akhilesh Kumar Tiwari, post commander RPF, South Western Railway told that Hanumantharaju was arrested last year and Mustafa on Jan 8th.
Upon questioning, Mustafa said to deccanherald that, "in 2017, he had created an Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) agent ID to book an e-ticket. He later joined hands with the other accused and hacked the booking portal through ANMS software and created 563 fake IDs and started booking e-tickets illegally."
Hanumantharaju worked for Mustafa in selling the e-tickets illegally. The RPF couldn't file the report under IT act, so instead they filed the complaint with the city Police under IPC Section 419 (cheating by personation) and 420 (cheating).
The accused are still under RPF custody but will soon be moved
to the city Police station, Rajagopala Nagar Police
Station.
The IRCTC mobile app can be download by anyone and used to book
tickets online within two minutes, five tickets per month for
personal usage. The accused made hundreds of IRCTC accounts to book
several tickets.
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