The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has detained a Delhi man for violating many railroad rules by breaking into the IRCTC website and selling Tatkal quota train tickets at inflated costs. The accused, who owned a business in Uttar Pradesh that sold tickets, employed illegal software to take advantage of the website. He further created bogus profiles for automated bookings. Continue reading to know more about the story.
More About The Accused
The accused has been identified as Moinuddin Chisti. He is a resident of Dadri and has a BSc in mathematics. Chisti even owns a railroad ticket office in Ayodhya Ganj, Greater Noida. Over the past two years, he is said to have made Rs 30 lakh from ticket sales.
The Discovery By IRCTC
It was discovered that Tatkal and premium berths were being booked suspiciously using a mobile number active in the Dadri area. The RPF’s Dadri section then allegedly received a tip-off on Chisti from Prayagraj’s cybercrime unit. According to the cybercrime cell, the accused created personal user IDs on the IRCTC website. He did so using the three unlawful software programs Nexus, Bigboss, and Sikka_V2. These illicit apps enable users to save time by quickly completing the online booking procedure by auto-filling details such as source, destination, date, train and coach details, and payment method for booking in IRCTC forms.
Arrest Of The Fraudulent Purchaser
A 22-year-old computer engineer was arrested in July by the RPF and police teams from Dadri and Aligarh. He was detained for fraudulently purchasing Tatkal rail tickets through the Nexus app. However, The person didn’t stop there. He was further found to be reselling the tickets for four times the original amount. Furthermore, by selling tickets, the accused made Rs 15 lakh.
According to Verma’s account to TOI, the cell phone’s IP address led them to Chisti’s railway ticket office in Ayodhya Ganj. “Chisti was detained late on Monday night by Section 143 of the Home Railways Act of 1989, which imposes penalties for buying and selling train tickets without authorization. On Tuesday, after being presented before a magistrate, he was jailed. Furthermore, His store was raided for two laptops, a printer, a phone, and some cash. According to an RPF official, we also discovered that he had just purchased 88 train e-tickets totaling Rs. 1.55 lakh.
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