Suspending the sale of platform tickets on Central Railway with immediate effect to curb crowds, the railways on Friday hit back at the fake crowd videos of Mumbai railway stations being circulated on social media. The CR beamed live CCTV footage of all stations during a virtual press conference, to prove the point that there were no unusual crowds and said that they had launched a criminal investigation into the circulated videos, which were tampered with, to show them as latest ones. Western Railway officials also participated in the conference and said there were no crowds on its local stations either.

A screen grab from CR’s live streaming of its stations