The accused could not present any valid ID or badge and claimed (in a video) that he was an authorised ticket checker posted at Bandra; However, he later confessed to impersonating a railway official
Man posing as ticket checker
A youth boarded the 19015 Saurashtra Express from Virar today and began checking passengers’ tickets. On-duty coach conductor, Deputy Chief Ticket Inspector Shyam Kishore Prasad, became suspicious and asked him for an ID card, which he failed to produce. He was handed over to the RPF at Dahanu Road for further action.
The accused could not present any valid ID or badge and claimed that he was an authorised ticket checker posted at Bandra. However, he later confessed to impersonating a railway official.
In a similar incident in 2023, a fake ticket checker was caught while inspecting tickets in the first-class compartments of a Central Railway Mumbai local train.
“The individual was checking tickets of commuters in the first-class compartments of local trains between Diva and Dombivli. When questioned about his credentials, he began to behave suspiciously. Passengers then handed him over to the station master at Diva,” an official had said.
“After a thorough investigation and interrogation, it was revealed that he had been impersonating a ticket checker on board trains. He had even fabricated a counterfeit identity card that closely resembled the authentic one. The accused, identified as Hariom Vijay Bahadur Singh, is only 21 years old and resides in Airoli. He is a permanent resident of Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. A forged ticket checker's ID with the words ‘Northern Railway’ was confiscated from him,” the official added.
Railway authorities have registered a case against him with the Dombivli railway police.
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