Sleuths of Task Force (STF) claimed to have arrested two more members of a gang involved in sale of railway tickets from Charbagh railway station on Sunday evening.
The gang memebrs used to get tickets illegally through on-line booking managed by Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC).
SSP STF, Abhisekh Singh, claimed that jointly working with Intelligence wing of Railway Protection Force (RPF), the STF team nabbed two more suspects from Charbagh. They were involved in sale of tickets procured through on-line booking services of the IRCTC.
Singh said that on November 24, 2016, Assistant Manager (Anti-fraud) Cell of IRCTC New Delhi, Rakesh Kumar Mishra lodged a case in Cyber Crime police station in lucknow. In subsequent raids, five accused were arrested.
“The STF later learnt that some other members of the gang had become active and were present in Charbagh to organise the racket. A team was later despatched and on Sunday evening, a joint team of STF and RPF, dropped the net on two members identified as Suresh Kumar Maurya of Pratapgarh and Rakesh Kumar Gupta of Jaunpur district.
Suring quizzing, the accused revealed that they provide software to IRCTC agents which helped them to download Tatkal tickets immediately. They claimed that before Tatkal booking was started by IRCTC every morning, they used the illegal software to connect with IRCTC site and after procuring the tickets, sold it to passengers charging anything from Rs 500 to Rs 2000 extra. A case was registered and further interrogations was being carried out.