<p class="title"> The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has arrested a travel agent from Mumbai for sending a request for railway ticket confirmation under emergency quota on a fake letterhead of Union Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">When Commercial Division of Central Railways in Mumbai received the request letter asking to confirm the waiting list tickets in different trains a few days back, suspected officials contacted the minister's office in Rail Bhavan at New Delhi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister's office, which denied sending any such request, referred the matter to RPF for investigation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Since it was e-ticket, through email id and address of agent registered in the IRCTC website, RPF officials traced the travel agent M Khan and arrested him within four hours. The police are also looking out for his associates, who were also involved in the racket.</p>.<p class="bodytext">During the investigation, the accused admitted that he looked up for Angadi's letterhead image on the internet and then downloaded it.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He then printed the ticket details on it.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The agent used to collect Rs 2,500 from passengers on the promise of giving them a confirmed ticket, said RPF officials.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Angadi has instructed the railway officials to take strict action against culprits, who try to take advantage of ticket confirming system under VVIP quotas. </p>.<p class="bodytext">This was not the first time such an incident was reported. Earlier, several travel agents have been arrested from different parts of the country for sending a request for confirming the ticket in fake letterheads of Union ministers and MPs to railway offices under Emergency Quota.</p>
<p class="title"> The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has arrested a travel agent from Mumbai for sending a request for railway ticket confirmation under emergency quota on a fake letterhead of Union Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">When Commercial Division of Central Railways in Mumbai received the request letter asking to confirm the waiting list tickets in different trains a few days back, suspected officials contacted the minister's office in Rail Bhavan at New Delhi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The minister's office, which denied sending any such request, referred the matter to RPF for investigation.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Since it was e-ticket, through email id and address of agent registered in the IRCTC website, RPF officials traced the travel agent M Khan and arrested him within four hours. The police are also looking out for his associates, who were also involved in the racket.</p>.<p class="bodytext">During the investigation, the accused admitted that he looked up for Angadi's letterhead image on the internet and then downloaded it.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He then printed the ticket details on it.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The agent used to collect Rs 2,500 from passengers on the promise of giving them a confirmed ticket, said RPF officials.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Angadi has instructed the railway officials to take strict action against culprits, who try to take advantage of ticket confirming system under VVIP quotas. </p>.<p class="bodytext">This was not the first time such an incident was reported. Earlier, several travel agents have been arrested from different parts of the country for sending a request for confirming the ticket in fake letterheads of Union ministers and MPs to railway offices under Emergency Quota.</p>
