Railway personnel arrest three touts

Railway personnel arrest three touts

The Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel attached to Mangaluru Central Railway Station on Saturday arrested three persons on the charge of selling train tickets to passengers for a premium.

An RPF official gave the names of the arrested as Kiran J. Bhat (35) of Chilimbi, Umesh (41) of Kankanady and Ravi Rajendra Shetty (30) of Kenjar.

Kiran was in possession of a second AC tatkal ticket from Mangaluru Central and Vadodara; Umesh possessed a three AC tatkal ticket between Mangaluru Central and Mumbai LTT and Ravi had a three AC tatkal ticket from Mangaluru Central and Mumbai CSTM, all for travel on Sunday.

The tickets were worth over Rs. 20,000 as each ticket had at least four passengers.

Police claimed that the accused used to buy tatkal tickets in advance and sell them for premium to genuine passengers.

The accused were produced before the jurisdictional magistrate and were remanded to three-day judicial custody.

According to RPF Police Sub-Inspector Bharat Raj, the accused either used to occupy the queue on their own or deploy their men as soon as the tatkal window opened.

Source:The Hindu