Nation Wide Raid on Railway E-Ticket Touts conducted by RPF - PIB

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Government of India
Ministry of Railways

03-November-2018

RPF conducted Nation Wide Raid on Railway E-Ticket Touts

Unauthorized use of E-Ticket Personal User Ids were under constant Electronic Surveillance of R.P.F.

On 2nd November' 2018, simultaneous raids against e-ticket touting were conducted in more than 100 cities throughout the Indian Railways on 'All India' basis.

Acting on various sources, a detailed analysis of booking pattern of railway reserved e-tickets was done by the Security Directorate, Railway Board. RPF examined minutely various modus operandi being used by touting element to procure and sell e-tickets unauthorisedly through Personal User Ids.

Accordingly, out of more than total 5 crore users, a list of most suspected personal user IDs was prepared at Railway Board, New Delhi. This congenial list of suspected users were, then shared with Zonal Heads of RPF (IG-cum-PCSCs) through a secret communication to maintain element of surprise in the entire operation (Code Name - Operation Storm).

Detailed instructions of the Director General/RPF were also conveyed regarding thorough verification of credentials & activities of all suspects at ground level well in advance of the proposed raid.

Though, the investigation is still going, information received so far is as under:-

• 185 Touts, indulged in touting activities since long, arrested & prosecuted. During the nation-wide raid, maximum (40) touts were arrested over Western Railways followed by Eastern Railway (32).
• 1875 future journey e-tickets worth 35.68 lakh forfeited.
• One illegal software was also detected in Mumbai.
• 1268 Personal User IDs, which were being used to carry out touting activities, sent to IRCTC for deactivating them immediately.
• 166 cases under section 143 of the Railways Act’ 1989 have been registered at various RPF Posts and taken up for investigation. Persons found involved in abetment of touting activities, will also be taken up appropriately as per extant legal provisions.

Keeping in view the ongoing festival season, a drive against touting element is already going on since 7th October' 2018. During this drive (Upto 2nd November 2018), total 891 touts have so far been arrested with the recovery of future journey tickets worth Rs. 1.50 crore and total tickets worth Rs. 5.75 crore.

The drive and investigation of cases is still going on. Team RPF is committed to take strong & sustained action against touting elements in future also.

S.No	Name of City	S.No	Name of City
1	Patna	56	Bhiwani
2	Buxur	57	Hisar
3	Mujjaffarpur	58	Sriganganagar
4	Deoria	59	Udaipur
5	Dibrugarh	60	Jodhpur
6	Chennai	61	Bandikuin
7	Coimbatore	62	Rewari
8	Madurai	63	Bhagatkikothi
9	Kannur	64	Ringus
10	Calicut	65	Jaipur
11	Palghat	66	Howrah
12	Mangalore	67	Asansol
13	Shoranur	68	Malda
14	Thanjavur	69	Jabalpur
15	CST Mumbai	70	Satna
16	Dadar	71	Sagar
17	Diva	72	Katni
18	Turbhe	73	Bhopal
19	VDLR	74	Habibganj
20	Nagpur	75	Vidisha
21	Bilaspur	76	Kota
22	Raipur	77	SawaiMadhopur
23	Dhanpuri/Amlai	78	Baran
24	Dabolin Airport (Goa)	79	Bharatpur
25	Anantpur	80	Uluberia
26	Jhansi	81	Vishakhapattanam
27	Morena	82	Rajam
28	Mirzapur	83	Bobbili
29	Allahanad	84	Jaipatana
30	Rajkot	85	Barpali
31	Ratlam	86	Delhi
32	Bhavnagar	87	Firojpur
33	Ahemdabad	88	Jammu
34	Vadodara	89	Udhampur
35	Hyderabad	90	Pathankot
36	Eluru	91	Jallandhar
37	Nellore	92	Amritsar
38	Bikaner	93	Katra
39	Churu	94	Moradabad
40	Lohadi	95	Ludhiana
41	Baddi	96	Bhilwara
42	Unnao	97	Hamari
43	GautamBudhnagar	98	Samdai
44	Bais	99	Jalore
45	Kathua	100	Narnaul
46	Nakodar	101	Saugor
47	Kotkapura	102	RamganjMandi
48	Chandausi	103	Shyamgarh
49	Roorkee	104	Dewas
50	Pali	105	Junagarh
51	Neemach	106	Veraval
52	Indore	107	Maninagar
53	Sabarmati	108	Vapi
54	Valsad	109	Surat
55	New Bhuj	110	Mahow

Source: PIB