Title - Passengers, beware of fraudulent tickets

Amid heavy rush during festive season; booking tickets from illegal IDs by agents have forced IRCTC to seize such tickets and open those seats for re-sale.

A similar incident happened to a 29-year-old passenger in Mumbai who bought her ticket from an agent but at the time of arrival, she found that her seat was occupied by other passengers. Shocked by this she immediately went to TTE to find out the reason where she came to know that her tickets were internally seized by IRCTC officials and seats which were allotted to them went for re-sale.

IRCTC has intensified their campaigns against such agents who use their personal ID to book tickets in place of IDs issued by IRCTC. Such tickets are directly seized by Indian Railways; however, the problem is that passengers who got their ticket from such agents are not informed which creates big problem for them. Since January as much as 567 tickets are seized by IRCTC officials and more than 200,000 illegal IDs are seized by IT department.

As a passenger, you must be aware of booking your ticket legally else you might face misfortune.