RAJKOT: Railway Protection Force (RPF) in Veraval railway station of Gir-Somnath district has unearthed a scam in tatkal ticket booking involving railway officials and agents.
On Wednesday, RPF stated they have arrested eight persons including four booking clerks so far.
RPF learnt about the Tatkal booking scam in April this year.
It found out that small railway stations like Talala, Sasan-Gir, Visavadar and Damnagar were making a daily income of Rs 1 lakh amid the pandemic which was at its peak in April.
Tickets were being issued to passengers from Ahmedabad and Surat.
Railway police discovered two Tatkal tickets — one for Ahmedabad-Lucknow and another for Surat-Muzaffarpur — were issued from Talala station booking office.
“We sent our team and asked the two passengers how they got the tickets.
They revealed the names of their agents who we arrested and managed to unravel the entire scam,” Uday Bhan Singh, police sub inspector, RPF, told media persons in Veraval on Wednesday.
RPF have arrested four booking clerks including Sandeep Agrawat of Sasan-Gir station, Manish Shrivastav of Talala station, Nitin Damania of Visavadar station and Shivkrupal Paswan of Damnagar station.
“Three clerks had opened bank accounts in their wives’ names and the amount they received from black marketing of tickets were deposited in these bank accounts.
Manish Srivastav had opened a bank account in the name of Sanjay Hariyani but gave his own mobile number and was operating the account himself,” police said.