Railway Protection Force (RPF) of South-East-Central Railway Nagpur Division has arrested an illegal ticket agent after conducting a raid.
The arrested accused has been identified as Praveen Kumar Ishwar (38), resident of Hingna T Point. Apart from this, illegal agents have also been caught in Dongargarh, Nainpur and Jabalpur.
It was found that a large number of tickets were booked from accused personal ID. He was called to Kamptee police station by giving him a notice. On appearing, 3 live, 9 old and one cancelled tickets booked from his personal ID were found in his computer.
The total cost of 13 tickets was Rs 29,893.08. On strict interrogation, he confessed to charging commission from passengers. Goods worth Rs 34,893 including computer and tickets have been seized from him. Similarly, in the above four operations, goods worth Rs 1,47,756 including 48 tickets were seized.