The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of Western Railway has arrested and convicted 20 e-ticketing agents in just one day, all in the same Andheri jurisdiction. The RPF team is behind such agents so that the people can get confirmed tickets from counters.

According to RPF officials, these agents used to make fake IDs and were buying tickets to sell it in their price to the passengers. “Nowadays people are not able to get the tickets on counters or online because these agents also use a software to speed up the internet speed and, within seconds, they get the confirmed tickets, immediately after online reservation is opened,” said a RPF official. The RPF team has been catching such agents, and this time 20 e-ticket agents have been arrested within the Andheri RPF jurisdiction, which covers Andheri, Jogeshwari, Goregaon and Malad.