Techie held with forged season tickets on AC local train in Mumbai

“Upon further investigation, it was found that the accused had manipulated railway tickets multiple times and had circulated similar passes among his friends and relatives,” a Western Railway official said.

According to information, when asked to produce a ticket, the accused reportedly showed a screenshot of a QST. When the official asked him to show the pass on his Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) app, the accused said the app is in some other phone which he forgot at home.

Sensing something is dubious, the railway official enquired with the UTS control room to check the details of the pass and subsequently found out that the QST is fake. The vigilance team later found out that the accused had used an editing app to manipulate the details in the season ticket.

As many as 11 forged UTS tickets worth a total of Rs 48,000 were recovered from his phone. The passenger was subsequently handed over to Government Railway Police (GRP) in Andheri for further action and was arrested after an FIR was registered against him on charges of forgery.