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Untitled Carousel Railway cops nab 'super-seller' with 38k train tickets worth Rs 10.56 crore sophisticated corporate-like structure in India comprising a country head, super-admins, lead-sellers and more than 20,000 agents.

Untitled Carousel Railway ticket cartel busted: 300 agents arrested in nationwide raids, tickets worth Rs 21 lakh seized A confirmed train ticket is extremely hard to come by in India, especially in smaller towns. A confirmed ticket on an important route can earn a premium of Rs 200 to Rs 500. During the festival season, there are long queues at ticket windows.

The Railway Protection Force (RFP) of theon Tuesday said it had found more than 55,000 fake email IDs andworth Rs 120,000 on the laptop belonging to Amit Prajapati – the 34-year-old software engineer from Ankleshwar, Gujarat, who was arrested with 37,796 train tickets worth Rs 10.56 crore.Prajapati is believed to be part of one of the biggest train ticketing gangs operating in the country. Mirror had reported on January 29 that the RPF had busted the gang, which involved a team of software engineers in Dubai, IP addresses emanating from the Balkans and a corporate-like structure in India. Prajapati is a ‘super-seller’ within the gang, according to officials.AK Singh, principle chief security commissioner, Western Railway, told Mirror the laptop was highly encrypted and the authorities had requested the help of cyber security experts to break into it. A team is expected to travel from New Delhi to Surat today, he added. “Prajapati is not cooperating with our officials. That is why we have decided to take the help of cyber security experts,” Singh said.One of Prajapati’s colleagues, Satyawan Upadhyay, alias Baba, who was arrested a week ago from Kurla, has transferred crores of rupees, but authorities are not sure about the final destination of the money – although some suspect it was Dubai. “The IT experts will also help us understand the money trail,” Singh said.In a related development, Arun Kumar, director general, RPF, held a press conference in New Delhi in which he said a nationwide drive against touts is on, and it will continue until “each member of this gang” – estimated to be around 20,000 – is arrested. Nearly 500 people have already been picked up from various parts of the country, he said.“Those arrested also include a Kolkata-based man with suspected links to Bangladesh-based terror outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh,” Kumar said.