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This is an archive article published on February 17, 1999

Fake rly ticke tracket busted

FEBRUARY 15: The Kalyan police have busted a racket of printing and selling fake suburban railway tickets at Dombivli station. A ticket c...

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FEBRUARY 15: The Kalyan police have busted a racket of printing and selling fake suburban railway tickets at Dombivli station. A ticket clerk, Noor Ahmed, and his accomplice, Raju Bhagwandas Vastava, who printed the fake tickets, have been arrested.

The Ramnagar police station was tipped off that thousands of fake return journey railway tickets from Dombivli to Dadar and CST, priced at Rs 15 and Rs 20 respectively, were openly being sold at ticket counters at Dombivli station. The police also recovered fake tickets from commuters, who maintained that they had purchased the tickets from the railway counter itself.

The police then stumbled upon a pile of such tickets lying at a roadside juice centre near Sridevi hospital in Kalyan. A team from the Ramnagar police station, including police inspector Datta Dhruv, sub-inspector Bausaheb Nanavare, Hemantkumar Kamble and others raided the juice centre and seized tickets worth Rs 15,000 and as well as machines worth Rs 7,000. An interrogation of the juice centreowner led to the arrest of Noor Ahmed and Vastava from Dombivli.

The police also recovered printing machines from a goods shed at Dombivli, where Vastava was employed as a foreman. The police are now confident that the information gathered from the duo will help them crack several such rackets which are rampant on stations on the Central Railway.

The police operation was carried out under the supervision of Deputy Commissioner of Police of Kalyan, Suresh Ahire, Assistant Police Commissioner Subhash Rathod, senior police inspector Suresh Sonavane.

 

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