New Delhi, April 2: Railway Protection Force (RPF) arrested 1459 touts. The process of blocking 366 IRCTC agent IDs and 6751 personal IDs has been undertaken during a pan India drive “Operation Upalabdh” against activities of touts. The drive was launched against the activities of touts throughout the country last month. The field units of RPF gathered inputs from the field, digital and cyber world, collated, verified and analyzed information and started the drive across the nation from March 1. The drive was successful and resulted in the arrest of 1459 touts, out of which 341 were authorized IRCTC agents but also indulged in touting of railway tickets, the Ministry of Railways, in a statement, said. The arrest of touts is about 3.64 times the figure of the previous month of February this year. The tickets of future journeys of value more than Rs 65 Lakhs cornered by these touts illegally were recovered and blocked thus making these seats available to the bonafide passengers. The month-long drive has been able to curb the activities of touts substantially and make railway tickets available to the common man. (UNI)
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