Various steps have been taken by East Central Railway including operation of Puja special trains to enable passengers to get travel tickets easily during the festival season. With the objective of curbing illegal purchase and sale of tickets under 'Operation Available', a special campaign is being run by Railway Protection Force against black marketing of railway tickets and ticket brokers in all divisions.
In this episode, A special raid was conducted against ticket brokers, IRCTC agents and travel agencies involved in black marketing of railway tickets on Wednesday in all the divisions of East Central Railway by the Railway Protection Force. During the drive, 58 ticket brokers were arrested and legal action was taken against them, registering a total of 55 cases of ticket brokerage in a day. As many as 94 journey tickets worth Rs 1.6 lakh booked for different dates onwards were recovered from arrested ticket brokers while 1650 journey tickets worth about Rs 23.5 lakhs booked for earlier travel dates were recovered.
In special raids, 12 cases were registered in Danapur division in which 12 ticket brokers were arrested. Similarly in Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Mandal, 11 people were arrested in 11 cases and in Dhanbad Mandal 07 cases were registered and 07 ticket brokers were detained. In this sequence, 14 and 11 cases of rail ticket brokerage were caught in Sonpur and Samastipur divisions respectively, in which 14 ticket brokers were arrested in Sonpur division and 14 ticket brokers in Samastipur division and action was taken under Railway Act 143.
In view of the extra rush of passengers, this campaign against ticket touts will continue continuously so that they can get travel tickets easily. There is an appeal to the railway passengers to buy rail travel tickets from the booking window, authorized website and authorized agents only and do not fall in the trap of ticket brokers.