RPF reveals terrorists funded with e-ticket racket

Ghulam Mustafa arrested in Bhubaneswar, arrested in online fake railway ticket scam

New delhi date. January 21, 2020, Tuesday

The Railway Police Force (RPF) has been a great success. The RPF's DG said that an international level scam has been uncovered in connection with the e-ticket. The mastermind of this racket is based in Dubai and is also active in India.

One person associated with the gang has been arrested and is under investigation. This is a kind of illegal ticket racket, with millions of rupees from people.

The RPF has arrested a man in Jharkhand, studied at Madrassa and learned software development on his own. It is suspected that the arrested persons are linked to terrorists and may be involved in cases such as terror funding.

RPF officer Arun Kumar said the name of the person arrested was Ghulam Mustafa and he was apprehended from Bhubaneswar. It has 563 private IDs of IRCTC. Simultaneously, a list of 2400 branches of State Bank of India and 600 branches of the Regional Grameen Bank has been found. Which is also suspected to have its own account.

Informing about this, the RPF DG said that the IB and other agencies had been keeping watch for the last 10 years. The ED, Special Bureau, NIA and Karnataka Police were also included.

The agencies and police also questioned the arrested Mustafa. The mastermind of the entire racket is Hamid Ashraf, who is suspected of making Rs 15 crore every month from a scam like Hawala racket. Ashraf is also a software developer who was also involved in a Gonda bombing in 2019.

There are now possibilities that he has fled abroad to escape arrest and police prosecution, and he has now received preliminary knowledge of being in Dubai. The e-ticketing racket is suspected to be linked to neighboring countries Pakistan, Bangladesh and Dubai. Terror funding strings are also attached.