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The Railway Protection Force (RPF) detained a 22-year-old BTech student on Friday in Noida for breaking into the IRCTC website and selling tatkal tickets to passengers of the Indian Railways in black, according to the police. They added that he had made close to 15 lakh rupees in the previous two years by doing this.
The suspect, Nayan Alam, 22, is a final-year B-Tech computer science student at a private institution in Greater Noida and lives in Sarfabad, Sector 73.
Officials claim that on July 26, when the cybercrime unit of Prayagraj notified RPF Dadri about several tatkal tickets being booked in a single day using a suspected IP Address and mobile number connected to Noida, the police became aware of the matter.
According to SK Verma, station house officer at Dadri Railway, "We tracked down and arrested the suspect with the help of technical analysis based on the tip-off received from the cyber wing."
"Alam allegedly used Temp mail software to create 56 fictitious IRCTC IDs and ran a private Telegram group where people from all around India contacted him to purchase Tatkal tickets in an emergency. If the intended route was congested, he charged ten times the actual ticket price, SHO Verma continued.
