WEEK LONG ( 2.4.2012 to 10.4.2012 ) SPECIAL DRIVE AGAINST TOUTING ACTIVITIES & UNAUTHORISED TRAVEL AGENCIES
During the ongoing Summer Rush- 2012, preventive checks were intensified during the week long special drive from 2.4.2012 to 10.4.2012 at Reservation and Booking offices jointly by Commercial and Vigilance teams with the assistance of RPF against touts and unauthorised travel agencies indulging in illegal business of sale of rail tickets and also detected passengers travelling on transferred tickets ( TOT cases) over Northern Railway. The details of Unauthorised Travel Agencies and Touts apprehended and prosecuted are as per details given below:
2UNAUTHORISED TRAVEL AGENCIES
In theraid, 2 unauthorised travel agencies were apprehended and 12 tickets were recovered from them. The persons present in the agencies were handed over to RPF for further prosecution u/s 143 of Railway Act.
45 TOUTS APPREHENDED
45 touts were apprehended and prosecuted u/s 144 of Railway Act.
TOT CASES
43 cases of travelling on transferred tickets were detected and a sum of Rs. 47,982/- was realized from them.
