An illegal agent in India who used a printer to make fake train tickets and IDs has been arrested.
Times of India reported that Indian authorities have, on a third attempt, managed to arrest the “agent”, who was printing fake e-tickets from “tatkal”, a train booking system in India. The tickets were worth Rs 62,769 ($939/€852) and also Rs 36,800 ($551/€500) in cash, and police found a computer and a printer in the “possession of the accused”, Rishkant Gupta, a 28-year-old from the Kholi area. Gupta ran an “internet service” near Narmada Nagar, but was arrested after police received tip-offs about the sale of illegal tickets.
Police caught him red-handed handing over a “taktal” e-ticket to a buyer, and found 41 railway tickets when they searched his office, which police say were obtained on “different fake IDs”. The tickets were for use on metros, and Gupta had used “12 fake IDs” to obtain them. During a police interview, Gupta told police that “he had been selling” the e-tickets for three years, had charged commission from Rs 50 to Rs 100 ($0.75 to $1/€0.60 to €1) per ticket, and also would “charge extra depending on the customer”.