RPF busts e-ticketing racket, 60 held

NEW DELHI: Use of almost all illegal softwares have been weeded out and more Tatkal tickets will be available for passengers for longer now, Railway Protection Force (RPF) director general Arun Kumar said on Tuesday. So far 60 persons have been arrested who were involved in illegal e-ticketing racket.
"We carried out surveillance to identify the players and have arrested almost all the key players. Meanwhile, corrective measures have been taken improve our system and now none can interfere. All the players in illegal software business for booking e-tickets have informed their clients that they have stopped all these activities and they have also warned others from doing so saying RPF is keeping an eye on everyone," the RPF chief told reporters.
He added that each major player was making about Rs 10-15 crore annually from this illegal business. Kumar said illegal softwares such as 'ANMS', 'MAC' and 'Jaguar' would bypass the IRCTC's login captcha, booking captcha and bank OTP to generate tickets, while a genuine user has to go through all these processes.
Officials involved in the investigation said that while the booking process for a general user usually takes around 2.55 minutes those using these softwares could do it in just 1.48 minutes. Hence, common users could hardly get any confirmed ticket.
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