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Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Hacked IRCTC website, made lakhs selling fake tickets before CBI got him

Hacked IRCTC website, made lakhs selling fake tickets before CBI got him

A man who used to hack train ticket booking website IRCTC to generate fake tickets was arrested from Dakshan Darwaza area in eastern Uttar Pradesh's Basti town on Thursday by a joint team of the Central Bureau of Investigation and railway's vigilance department, police said.

Hamid was arrested by a team of officials from CBI's Bengaluru branch and the Central Railway, which camped in Basti for three days, following an information that he had created a software to sell tickets by hacking the IRCTC website, police officer Rohit Mishra said.

Hamid had tied up with a number of people engaged in the fake ticket racket all over the country and used to book railway tickets using the software, Mishra said, adding that 10 laptops, 16 ATM cards, two PAN cards and Rs 50 lakh in cash were recovered from him.

He was taken on transit remand by the CBI and the Central Railway vigilance team for further questioning, the police officer added.

Source:IndiaToday

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Sunday, 25 October 2015

rail neer sales 06:52

Railways withdraws 'Rail Neer only' circular, stalls sell other brands as well

Railways withdraws 'Rail Neer only' circular, stalls sell other brands as well

The railways, after causing lakhs of commuters severe hardship with its knee-jerk 'Rail Neer only' water policy at suburban stations for the past one week, has finally started getting a grip on the situation by Friday. Faced with the fact that Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation's (IRCTC)'s Ambernath Rail Neer plant cannot supply the entire demand for packaged drinking water (PDW) emanating from Mumbai's stations, WR authorities early Friday morning allowed stalls to sell other brands as well.

In a reply to dna's query, GC Agarwal, WR general manager, said that IRCTC had written to WR that it will be able to supply Rail Neer to 14 mandated stations (stations where Railway Board has stipulated that only Rail Neer be sold) while the rest of the stations can sell other brands approved by the railways. These mandated stations include Churchgate, Marine Lines, Grant Road, Dadar, Bandra Terminus, Bandra, Kandivli, Borivli among others.

A query sent to CR authorities, including general manager SK Sood, on whether the 'Rail Neer only' circular was one issued in haste elicited no response.

On their part, IRCTC authorities told dna that they would revving up production at its Ambernath plant by November 1. Speaking to dna, Sandip Dutta, chief spokesperson of IRCTC, said, "By November 1, all three shifts will be operated at the Ambernath plant and we will be able to take production to full capacity of 16,000 cases (each case has 12 bottles) per day. Currently, the production level is around 10,000 cases."

Prior to the CBI raid on two top Northern Railway officials charged with conniving with private PDW manufacturers to thwart supply of Rail Neer, the production at the Rail Neer plant was around 3,000 cases.

Officials agreed that the 'Rail Neer only' circular was a knee-jerk one by both WR and CR and was also done without a realistic assessment of the demand for PDW, especially during October when Mumbai tends to experience high temperatures and energy-sapping humidity. While IRCTC's Ambernath plant at full capacity per day can produce 1,92,000 bottles, the total demand for PDW during the summer from Mumbai (both WR and CR) is around 3 lakh bottles per day. Apart from this, a circular issued in August last year (circular number 32 of 2014) mandated that all passengers of Rajdhani, Duronto and Shatabdi trains must compulsorily be given a complimentary bottle of Rail Neer. If the journey is above 20 hours, then the passenger must get two bottles of Rail Neer. This itself adds up to several thousand bottles per day.

"It is possible the CBI raids and previous complaints by the IRCTC that both WR sand CR are not taking their entire quota of Rail Neer being produced at Ambernath plant caused the officials in the commercial department to implement the 'Rail Neer only' circular in haste. What it has done is cause lots of problems to commuters and also revenue loss to railways. Several people willing to pay Rs15 for PDW were turned back at stalls since there was no supply itself," said an IRCTC official.

Numbers game:

Rail Neer daily production capacity - 6.14 lakh bottles

Rail Neer production in 2013-14 - 10.45 crore bottles

Rail Neer production in 2014-15 - 11.8 crore bottles

Rail Neer production target 2015-16 - 16 crore bottles

Rail Neer revenue for 2013-14 - Rs88 crore

Rail Neer revenue for 2014-15 - Rs96 crore

Rail Neer revenue estimate 2015-16 - Rs120 crore

Source :DNA INDIA.

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Tuesday, 20 October 2015

rk associates 19:54

Rail Neer contractor made Rs.500 Crore worth business empire in 10 years

Rail Neer contractor made Rs.500 Crore worth business empire in 10 years

New Delhi: A day after the Central Bureau of Investigation exposed a major scam in the supply of packaged drinking water within the Railways, it has now emerged that the ‘Rail Neer’ contractor had made a business empire worth Rs 500 crore in just over a decade.

As per a report, Shyam Bihari Agrawal, booked by CBI following its raid in connection with the ‘Rail Neer’ scandal, virtually controlled the railway catering services. Agarwal is the owner of the chain of Comesum restaurants at railway stations across India. He reportedly holds about 70% of pantry car business in Indian Railways through his parent company RK Associates & Hoteliers and several other front companies.

Agrawal, who hails from Chhattisgarh, gets almost all the contracts in the premium trains, including Rajdhani and Shatabdi express besides other important trains, the report said qouting the CBI sources.

Agrawal made the fortune after getting small catering contracts in railways with the help of some senior politicians and bureaucrats. He is said to be close to two former railway ministers and managed to get big contracts for catering.

Four of Agarwal’s several companies have been named by CBI in its FIR.

“Whenever there is a tender in railways for catering, he opens a new company with different set of Directors. Through his contacts, he gets the contract,” said an official was quoted as saying.

The agency had on Friday raided 13 places in Delhi and Noida, and registered a case against two senior officials of Northern Railway and seven private companies in connection with the alleged scam. The case has been lodged against former chief commercial managers (PS and Catering) of Northern Railway MS Chalia and Sandeep Silas.

The companies booked by CBI are RK Associates Pvt Ltd, Satyam Caterers Pvt Ltd, Ambuj Hotel and Real Estate, PK Associates Pvt Ltd, Sunsine Pvt Ltd, Brandavan Food Product and Food World under Prevention of Corruption Act.

CBI also recovered Rs 27 crore from the residence of Shyam Bihari Agrawal, his sons Abhishek Agrawal and Rahul Agarwal, who own RK Associates and Brandavan Food Product World.

As per CBI, the railway officials had favored these private firms by allowing other packaged drinking water other than the mandatory Rail Neer in premium trains, including Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express, and were making big gains.

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Scams 19:49

CBI busts Rail Neer Scam in Railways; seizes Rs.27 Crore from Suppliers

CBI busts Rail Neer Scam in Railways; seizes Rs.27 Crore from Suppliers

New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday recovered Rs 27 Crore in cash during searches at 13 locations against two former Northern Railways officials and seven private firms in connection with alleged corruption in supply of packaged drinking water other than mandatory ‘Rail Neer’ in premium trains.

CBI sources said a case has been registered against the then Chief Commercial Managers (PS and Catering) of Northern Railways M S Chalia and Sandeep Silas. The Ministry of Railways announced earlier that two officials whose homes were raided by the CBI stand suspended.

CBI also recovered fake currency of Rs 4 lakh among Rs 27 crore recovered from Railway caterers during its searches.

Sources said, the agency stumbled upon unaccounted cash which was so huge that it took 15 hours of counting the currency with the help of three counting machines and five officials of the agency.

The agency has also booked private companies RK Associates Pvt Ltd, Satyam Caterers Pvt Ltd, Ambuj Hotel and Real Estate, PK Associates Pvt Ltd, Sunsine Pvt Ltd, Brandavan Food Product and Food World under Prevention of Corruption Act provisions. Silas has served as the private secretary of a former Union Minister.

They said cash recovery of Rs 20 crore was made from the residence of Shyam Bihari Agrawal, his sons Abhishek Agrawal and Rahul Agarwal who own RK Associates and Brandavan Food Product.

irctc railneer racket cbiAgrawal, who hails from Durg in Chhattisgarh, started as a small time caterer somewhere in 2004 and slowly increased the business taking the turnover of his company to around Rs 500 crore catering in almost all the Shatabdi and Rajdhani trains, the sources said.

They said cash of Rs 1 crore was recovered from the office of his firms while Rs 52 lakh was recovered from the residence of his Chief Executive Officer.

The sources said CBI may slap charges of fake currency on Agrawal.

They said Agrawal, who was allegedly carrying on with fraud of selling cheap water in place of Rail Neer since 2012 in the trains, had purchased lot of land in the national capital region and owns luxury hotels in Noida, Ghaziabad, Navi Mumbai, Raipur.

They said he used his connections with the Railway officials to allegedly grab lucrative contracts of restaurants on Railway premises.

The two former Chief Commercial Managers Northern Railways (Catering division) were suspended in the wee hours of Saturday morning after CBI registered a case against them for allegedly showing favour to private firms which provided cheap packaged drinking water (PDW) to premium trains instead of the mandatory “Rail Neer”. The agency on October 16 carried out searches at 13 locations in NCR which included premises of two Chief Commercial Managers of Railways and private companies which included the two firms run by Agrawal.

It is alleged that the accused Railway officials had shown favour to private firms in supply of cheap packaged drinking water (PDW) other than mandatory ‘Rail Neer’ in premium trains including Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express.

The officers identified as Sandeep Silas and MS Chalia, posted as Chief Project Manager (FOIS) and Chief Claims officer, respectively, now might be facing arrest if the probe agency deems it necessary to question them. Silas has served as the private secretary to three former Union ministers including Oscar Fernandes, Mallikarjun Kharge and Ambika Soni.

CBI spokesperson Devpreet Singh said it was further alleged that the Railway Board had prescribed that IRCTC shall provide Rail Neer at a rate of Rs 10.50 (approx) per bottle to the private caterers and the private caterers will be paid Rs 15 (approx) per bottle for supplying the same to passengers in premium trains.

According to sources the probe into their role has further widened after CBI recovered incriminating documents from the premises of private firms which were allegedly shown favour by the two officials. According to a CBI source, the probe agency is not only looking into the supply of bottled water, but also into restaurants located at railway stations that belonged to the catering firms which were in the good books of the officials. The agency is also looking into the catering products and food served in premium trains including Shatabdi and Rajdhani express. However, the private suppliers in order to obtain undue gain, were allegedly supplying cheap packaged water, other than “Rail Neer”, available in the market at a rate of Rs 5.70 to Rs 7 (approx) per bottle, thereby causing gain to themselves and loss to the exchequer, the official said.

Searches are being conducted today at 13 places in Delhi and Noida which led to recovery of cash amount of more than Rs 20 crore (approx) and a large number of incriminating documents — Devpreet Singh, Spokesperson, CBI

“The accused public servants allegedly did not take any action against the private parties providing catering services in the premium trains despite repeated requests of IRCTC for non-picking of allotted quota of “Rail Neer” by private caterers and directions of Railway Board to ensure supply of “Rail Neer” PDW in premium trains, thereby causing undue pecuniary advantage to the private parties and corresponding loss to IRCTC,” said Devpreet Singh, CBI spokesperson.

On Friday the probe agency conducted searches on premises of at least seven private firms based in Delhi and recovered Rs20 crores in cash. CBI officials told that the amount that has been recovered has increased to a whopping Rs28 crores. “The money was stuffed in 27 large bags and hidden in various locations raided by the agency,” said a CBI official.

“A large number of incriminating documents have also been recovered,” said the CBI spokesperson.

Officials told that the most of the money was recovered from the residence of Shyam Bihari Agrawal, his sons Abhishek Agrawal and Rahul Agarwal, who own RK Associates and Brandavan Food Product World.

“Mr Agarwal was a small-time businessman in Chhattisgarh nearly two decades ago. Examination of accounts of one his firms shows that he has a turnover of more than Rs500 crore,” said a CBI official privy to the investigation. According to the official, the close relations Agarwal shared with senior officials of the railways had helped him to accumulate vast sums of money.

According to officials, the Railway Board had prescribed that IRCTC shall provide “Rail Neer” at a rate of rupees 10.50 per bottle to the private caterers who in return would be paid rupees 15 per bottle for supplying the same to the passengers in premium trains . The private caterers however in order to obtain undue gain were allegedly supplying cheap PDW brands, instead of “Rail Neer”, which were available in the market at a rate Rs5.70 to Rs7 per bottle. The agency said the total amount of loss to the exchequer is yet to be calculated

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Sunday, 18 October 2015

Shatabdi trains 05:53

Rail Neer scam:Two Officials are suspended -Northern Railway

The CBI today recovered Rs 20 crore in cash during searches at 13 locations against two former Northern Railways officials and seven private firms in connection with alleged corruption in supply of packaged drinking water other than mandatory ‘Rail Neer’ in premium trains.

CBI sources said a case has been registered against the then Chief Commercial Managers (PS and Catering) of Northern Railways M S Chalia and Sandeep Silas. The Ministry of Railways announced earlier today that two officials whose homes were raided by the CBI stand suspended.

The sources claimed cash recovery of Rs 20 crore was made from the residence of Shyam Bihari Agrawal, his sons Abhishek Agrawal and Rahul Agarwal who own RK Associates and Brandavan Food Product.

It is alleged that the accused had shown favour to these private firms in supply of cheap packaged drinking water (PDW) other than mandatory ‘Rail Neer’ in premium trains including Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express.

However, the private suppliers in order to obtain undue gain, were allegedly supplying cheap packaged water, other than “Rail Neer”, available in the market at a rate of Rs 5.70 to 7.00 (approx) per bottle, thereby causing gain to themselves and loss to the exchequer, the official said.

CBI said directions of Railway Board to ensure supply of “Rail Neer” in premium trains were also ignored by the officials thereby causing undue pecuniary advantage to the private parties and corresponding loss to IRCTC. “Searches are being conducted today at 13 places in Delhi and Noida which led to recovery of cash amount of more than Rs 20 crore(approx) and a large number of incriminating documents,” the spokesperson said.

Source :The Indian Express.

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Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Tatkal Booking 07:26

By installing a software, Stalin, a travel agent, could book six separate tickets -IRCTC SCAM

IRCTC Scam: HC Denies Bail to Chennai Travel Agent

BENGALURU:The Karnataka High Court recently dismissed the bail plea of an accused in an Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) scam.

After considering the contentions of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Justice L Narayanaswamy denied bail to T Stalin, aged about 35 and a resident of Sanjay Nagar, Ponniyammanmedu in Chennai.

The CBI contended that the case is still in the investigation stage and a chargesheet is yet to be filed. They said Stalin was part of a larger conspiracy involving several people, including public servants whose names have not been established yet. It is paramount to nab the other accused for which the interrogation of Stalin is crucial, CBI told the court.

Stalin was booked under various Sections of IPC, Prevention of Corruption Act and Information Technology Act.

Modus Operandi

By installing a software, Stalin, a travel agent, could book six separate tickets — for a maximum of 36 passengers — whereas in the normal course, they can book only one ticket with a maximum of six passengers. The software allows opening of six separate windows resulting in the generation of six tickets at the same time. The IRCTC realises the payment of only one ticket and the other five tickets are unpaid for, hence causing a huge loss.

According to the objections filed by CBI, Stalin had conspired with several other accused, including IRCTC officials and hackers by installing some software in the computers used for booking railway tickets.

The CBI added that due to these malpractices, passengers are affected when booking tatkal tickets. Also, when rectifications were made in the IRCTC website to prevent such malpractices, the accused IRCTC officials working in New Delhi, alerted the other accused regarding the changes made in the IRCTC website.

With this information, the accused managed to make necessary changes in their software and carry out bulk booking of tickets.

“During the raid conducted by the CBI on the premises used by Stalin, several incriminating materials were seized. The material against Stalin points clearly to his active participation in the offences”, CBI said.

When the CBI investigating team visited the premises owned by Stalin, they were attacked by the latter and his associates. A case regarding this has been registered at Anna Nagar police station, Chennai. If Stalin is released on bail, he may scuttle the ongoing investigation process, flee from the clutches of law and may also indulge in similar crimes, CBI said.

Source:The New Indian Express

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Thursday, 9 July 2015

software professionals 09:45

CBI arrests IRCTC Official for cornering Railway Tickets

CBI arrests IRCTC Official for cornering Railway Tickets

‘ The accused had allegedly interfered with the IRCTC system by installing a software at travel agents’ offices’

Bangalore (SBC): The CBI, Bengaluru on Wednesday raided 11 locations across different States and busted a racket in cornering railway tickets.

The Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) of the CBI registered a case against Shahid, Assistant Manager, IRCTC, New Delhi and others.

The CBI officials said, “The accused had allegedly conspired and interfered with the IRCTC booking system by installing a software programme in the computers at various travel agents’ offices by which the agent can book six separate tickets, each for six passengers per ticket, i.e. 36 passengers in one go, where as in normal course an agent can book tickets only for six passengers at a time.”

The travel agents cornered tickets, which were then sold at higher prices. CBI claims to have recovered incriminating documents, hard disks, tatkal tickets and material used for creation of multiple IRCTC windows. Sleuths also raided vendors of New Trained Software, which was used by the racketeers.

On Wednesday, the police conducted simultaneous, coordinated searches at 11 locations spread over different states and unearthed the ticketing fraud. They seized incriminating documents, laptops, hard disks, and tatkal tickets that were used for creation of multiple IRCTC windows for generating multiple tickets at a time. They also raided the ‘offices’ of the agents supplying this software in Mumbai to Kolkata and seized their computers.

“All the electronic data will be sent to forensic labs and examined to unearth the mechanism,” a CBI source said.

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Wednesday, 1 July 2015

transport Link 07:46

Indian Railways moves Supreme Court on dual freight policy issue

The cash-strapped Indian Railways has moved the Supreme Court in a case against its dual pricing mechanism that can open up the possibility of the transporter collecting thousands of crores additionally from iron ore exporters, who allegedly misused the facility to evade full freight charges.

The railways has suffered a loss of over R29,000 crore in five years on freight earnings because of the faulty manner in which it charged for the carriage of iron ore, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said in its report tabled in Parliament last month. The amount, if recovered, can significantly boost the capex plans of the cash-strapped entity, which has projected a 52% jump in Plan spending for the current fiscal.

Ever since the evasion was detected in 2011, the case has been under the scanner of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), the CAG, CBI and other agencies. Seeking the transfer of around two dozen petitions pending before different high courts in the country against its 2008 dual pricing mechanism for iron ore, the government has challenged the Calcutta High Court’s order in December last year that upheld the railways’ policy, but restrained it from blacklisting the companies and imposing penalty on them for evading the full freight charges by falsely claiming that the iron ore they moved through railways was meant for domestic consumption.

Source : The Financial Express.

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Recruitment process 07:38

Kolkata Rail Recruitment fraud victims were surprisingly ‘trained’,’paid’

Kolkata Rail Recruitment fraud victims were surprisingly ‘trained’,’paid’

Kolkata (KOAA): The detective department made one more arrest in the fake railway and extortion racket with the arrest of one Jitendra Chowdhury from Rishra. What the cops learnt from him has left them wondering on some insider role in running the gang. Sources said the gang used to operate at different levels and had several persons acting as their field agents across four cities in south Kolkata.

According to police sources, the accused used to charge anywhere between Rs 30,000-40,000 for filling up railway interview forms. Once they were convinced by the gang to come to Kolkata, they were lodged at Naihati and Kanchrapara where they were asked to undergo some “basic General Knowledge and Mathematics training.” They would then be asked to sit for a fake exam and some of them “passed.” The gang members were handed over fake TT badges and even a month’s “salary” (from the money paid to the gang as salaami) after they passed “medical exams” from railway hospitals. They would be “assigned work” at non-descript stations and carsheds with hardly any senior railway officer even having any inkling about the gang’s activities. All this same for a price – they had to shell thousands to get the offer letter. Anyone who refused to pay them were immediately kidnapped and around Rs 4 lakh demanded from family members to free him.

“This arrested Jitendra acted as the man who arranged for the medical tests at the government hospitals,” said joint CP (crime) Pallab Kanti Ghosh. But it was one Vinod, a top college BSc Honours graduate and a fluent speaker of English who trapped the victims in Hyderabad. Cops said his arrest was important to nab the gang leader. “We have identified the gang leader and know he was arrested earlier for committing the same crime,” said Ghosh.

Detective department said that they are in touch with CBI which had busted a similar racket three years ago. “While some of us were asked to attend training in a dingy shed in Calcutta, others told us that they had appeared for an examination at a centre outside Calcutta,” said P. Viswanathan of Salem, one of the victims of 2012. He added that 18 of them were put up at a Calcutta lodge for four months from January 2012 for training though classes were held only for two weeks. CBI sources said more than 200 people from Tamil Nadu had been cheated by the racket, operating since 2009-10. There were around 60 odd candidates from Kerala too.

Two persons identified as Rajendran and Omprakash were rescued from their clutches by the detective department in this regard last week after cops traced the mobile call to a place in Kasba. On Sunday, additional raids were carried out in this regard in south suburban Kolkata. “One Manikant Reddy, residing in Hyderabad, said he received a call on June 23 from his friend who said he was in Kolkata and that he has been kidnapped. Unless Rs 4 lakh was paid to his captors, he would not be released. Reddy came down to Kolkata and lodged a complaint this Wednesday in this regard. He said the call was made from his friend’s own number.

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Thursday, 11 June 2015

TamilNadu 16:06

CBI frames charges in Rs.4000 Crore Railway Freight scam

CBI frames charges in Rs.4000 Crore Railway Freight scam

CBI blows the lid off freight scam in railways. Four cases registered against railway officials and firms involved in freight scam

New Delhi: The CBI on Wednesday registered four cases in connection with the nearly Rs 4,000 crore Railway scam where officials manipulated the actual weight of loaded goods through software in wagons. This followed the investigations by the CBI and vigilance department of Indian Railways which unearthed the multi-crore Railway Weigh-bridge scam a few months back.

The investigation agency registered three cases in Tamil Nadu and one case in Maharashtra against unknown officials of Railways and private firms. In the first case, the Southern Railway officials in Mangalore manipulated the in-motion weigh bridge installed at Panambur Yard by modifying the software programme causing a wrongful loss of around Rs 20.72 crore to the Railways.

In the three cases, which were registered at Trichy, Tuticorin and Salem in Tamil Nadu, the railway officials fraudulently tampered with the installed Railway in-motion Electronic Weigh Bridges in Tamil Nadu causing losses to the tune of several hundred crore to the exchequer.

A senior CBI officer said that at Trichy, the railway officials manipulated in-motion weigh bridge – that took place between 2012 and 2014– and 64 rakes of goods trains were overloaded and sent by a private company, who was a bulk transporter of cement. At Tuticorin, the case was registered pertaining to the alleged fraud committed by a private company which installed the equipment at Melivattan village.

“A private company which was a bulk transporter had got several tonnes of excess goods transported using the same modus operandi,” the officer said. He also said that the third case was registered pertaining to the alleged fraud committed by a private transport company in connivance with the weigh bridge equipment installation company at Salem.

The fraud had occurred since 2011 and several rakes had been found to carry excess weight causing loss to the Railways. The probe agency had in April carried out checks after they received inputs and found that several officials had manipulated the software for weighing goods wagons resulting in loss of revenue.

The officer said that in 2012-13, Railways had ferried 1,008 million metric tonnes of freight and earned Rs 85,262 crore through it, which constituted 67 per cent of the total revenue for the period. The goods are required to be weighed at the originating station or en route to or at the destination point with a view to plugging the leakage of revenue and to avoid overloading of the wagons.

The officer said inputs were received that this system had been manipulated at several places in such a way that overloading was concealed and weight of the wagon was shown to be within the permissible limit.

A CBI release said a wrongful loss of Rs.20.72 crore was caused to the Railways by showing lesser weight of wagons through manipulation of the software at the Pananmbur yard.

As detailed in earlier Express reports, the epi-centre of the scam was the Tiruchirapalli Goods Yard which was sealed in February this year after the CBI filed an FIR. Apart from an engineer of the private firm, Senlogic Automation, which installed and maintained the electronic in-motion weighbridge, the cement major Ramco Cements was also named in the February FIR filed by CBI.

The company’s cement clinkers were weighed at the Tiruchy yard before being sent to their plant in Ariyalur.

According to the FIR, the software of the in-motion weighbridges were tampered to show lesser than actual weight of goods transported through wagons.

According to the CBI, the manipulations at Tiruchy yard had taken place during the period from 2012 to 2014 and 64 rakes of goods trains were overloaded.

Apart from Pananmbur and Trichy, the CBI has also registered cases pertaining to similar frauds at Melivattan in Tuticorin and Salem.

The fraud was allegedly committed by a private transporter company in connivance with the weighbridge equipment installation company at both locations.

Sources said it is suspected that the alleged manipulation was done through collusion amongst railway officials, private vendors and freight operators.

CBI suspects that highly sophisticated methods were also used to manipulate the software. The agency also suspects losses of Rs 4,263 crore may have been caused going by figures of 2012-13 alone but are probing under-reporting of weighment of past three financial years, sources said adding that almost two-third of the revenue of Indian Railways’ comes from freight earnings.

Railways had in consultation with Research Development and Standards Organisation (RDSO) installed 200 ‘Electronic In-Motion Weigh Bridges’ at various locations across the country to weigh the freight in transit. Six vendors have been roped in by RDSO for setting up the bridges, which automatically measure the weight of goods train wagons passing through them at a speed of 15-km per hour, sources said.

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Railway Service 07:40

CBI arrests railway official in bribery case

CBI arrests railway official in bribery case

A railway official in West Bengal was arrested for taking bribe from a subordinate promising a favourable transfer, a CBI official said on Wednesday.

"Prem Prakash Sharma, a senior mechanical engineer in Asansol railway division, was arrested on Tuesday night after being caught red handed taking a bribe of Rs.5,000 from Sanjay Kumar," said a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official.

"Sharma had asked for the bribe for relieving Kumar in pursuant to his transfer orders for Bokaro (in Jharkhand)," said the official.

Sharma, during the day, was presented before a court which remanded him in 14 days' judicial custody.

Source:Webindia123

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Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Fake Railway Recruitment Board 07:08

CBI busted fake Railway Recruitment Board

A CBI team has arrested a Bihar-native from Selaqui here in connection with the fake railway recruitment website through which several people were allegedly duped of lakhs of rupees.

About 18 months ago, a gang of 12 had set up a fake website similar to that of the Railway Recruitment Board and cheated several unemployed youths with the false promise that they would be hired as ticket collectors with Northern Railway.

Three of the 12 accused had been arrested earlier. The probe by the economics offenses wing (EOW) of the CBI led them to Dehradun, where they arrested a key accused Sachchidanand Jha, a native of Darbhanga in Bihar. Jha had been living in Selaqui for the past few months and had even worked as a property dealer in the area. During his stay in Dehradun, too, he allegedly duped several local residents with bad property deals.

Deputy superintendent of police (CBI) Akhil Kaushik said, “On Wednesday, Jha was produced before a court by the CBI team in order to get a transit remand for Delhi. Upon getting the court’s permission, Jha was taken to Delhi for investigation. He had been living in Dehradun using different names — Akhilesh Jha, Akhilesh Sharma and Naresh Rathi. He is likely to be produced before a Delhi court on Thursday.”

The CBI officer said that the gang had created a fake website with a sharp resemblance to that of the Railway Recruitment Board’s to lure “targets”. The conmen would then charge unsuspecting victims between Rs 2 lakh and Rs 5 lakh to “arrange” jobs.

Credit : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/Railway-recruitment-racket-CBI-arrests-key-accused-from-Doon/articleshow/47271951.cms

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Sunday, 17 May 2015

Northern Railway 06:40

CBI MAy Probe into Rs 100-Crore Indian railway ticketing fraud case

CBI MAy Probe into Rs 100-Crore Indian railway ticketing fraud case

Mumbai:- As investigation into the sensational Rs 100-crore railway ticketing fraud is likely to be handed over to the central Bureau of Investigation(CBI).Taking a serious note of the matter, the Northern Railway has recommended the Railway Board to seek CBI enquiry into the case.

Railway officials said the vigilance department of Northern Railway has sent a detailed report to the Railway Board, elaborating on the modus operandi of the gang and the estimated monetary loss that the Indian Railways have incurred in the last several months.Sources said the reports also details how the gang took advantage of a lack of mechanism for auto-update of reservation charts after departure of train from the source station."The report submitted to the Railway Board elaborates how the syndicate used remote areas to claim refund from reservation counter.

A thorough department enquiry has also been recommended to estimate the exact(monetary) loss caused to the railways" a senior official said."As the gang had its presence across all 16 railway zones, the english daily had reported about the Rs 100-crore ticketing scam on Friday.Northern Railway feels that separate probes by different stste goverment could lead to a lack of uniformity and delay the probe," he added.Railway authorities believe an early and timely probe can save railway from any further loss."Fraudsters may continue to claim refunds by cancelling fake train tickets, without any check, from different parts of the country, causing further losses to the railways," he added.

Northern Railway vigilance department had busted a Pan-India syndicate of ticketing frauds, which has inflicted a loss of over Rs 100 crore to the railways.Officials found that unidentified syndicates had claimed refund of about Rs 60 lakh,in the last six months, by cancelling tickets of trins originating from Delhi alone.

The gang members received passenger details from insiders and printed fake tickets .They then got these tickets cancelled at remotely located reservation counters after the train's departure from the source station.As per the rules. a PRS ticket can be cancelled from any reservation centre across the country and travellers can get 50 percent refund of the ticket price after two hours of the departure of the train.

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Friday, 15 May 2015

Railway Recruitment 16:56

CBI arrests Masterminds of railway recruitment racket

Mumbai: CBI team has arrested a Bihar-native from Selaqui here in connection with the fake railway recruitment website through which several people were allegedly duped of lakhs of rupees. The alleged masterminds of a job racket were held for fleecing unemployed youths on the pretext of giving them recruitment in railways and training for the same using a fake Railway Recruitment Board website.

Two prime accused in the case, Naresh Rathi alias Balram Sharma and Akhilesh Kumar alias Sachidanand Jha, were arrested this week from Haryana and Dehradun, respectively, while four members of the gang were nabbed in Lucknow last month, CBI sources said here today. About 18 months ago, a gang of 12 had set up a fake website similar to that of the Railway Recruitment Board and cheated several unemployed youths with the false promise that they would be hired as ticket collectors with Northern Railway.

“These gang members took the victims to railway office for imparting ‘training’ for positions in railways. The gang was operating in various parts of the country and targeting gullible unemployed youth,” a CBI official said.

The sources said that Rathi and Kumar emerged as the alleged ring leaders of the gang and were arranging for medical examination and training of the unsuspecting victims, to whom they would issue appointment letters in the name of railways.

CBI had registered an FIR last month on the complaint of one Lalit Verma, who claimed he was cheated to the tune of Rs 1.50 lakh on the pretext of being given employment as a ticket checker in Northern Railways.

“More cases of similar cheating have also come to light.

The modus operandi adopted by the gang was to issue forged appointment letters (to victims) and arranging their bogus medical examination at Railway Hospital to convince them about the genuineness of the selection. The gang was operating using a fake website of Railway Recruitment Control Board,” the official said.

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Saturday, 9 August 2014

Sealdah Division 22:05

CBI arrests Railway official, 5 others in bribery case

CBI arrests Railway official, 5 others in bribery case

Sealdah (SDAH): A senior Railways official from Sealdah Division and five others were today arrested by CBI for allegedly receiving bribe in return of favouring business concerns of private companies in processing of bills and overlooking the omission against execution of various works.

The agency has arrested Kunal Mukherjee, Senior Divisional Engineer, managers of private companies Maruti Enterprises and Bee Tech Enterprises and three other private persons in an alleged bribe case of Rs 45,000.

“A case was registered alleging that two private persons managing the business affairs of Kolkata-based private firms had entered into a criminal conspiracy with Senior Divisional Electrical Engineer…during the year 2014,” CBI spokesperson said here today.

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