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Mumbai: Western Railway TCs nab woman with fake AC train pass
Updated On: 05 January, 2024 05:02 AM IST | Mumbai | Rajendra B. Aklekar
The ticket checkers, both international athletes, got suspicious when serial number on train pass didn’t match current series
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The fake season ticket was found in the possession of a woman
Two international-level medallist athletes working as ticket checkers on Western Railway Mumbai caught a woman commuter, who works as a software engineer, with fake season tickets (passes) on board the AC local train. “Today, in AC local between Virar and Churchgate at 9.23 am, two fake passes bearing serial number D 39503073 were detected by deputy chief ticketing inspectors Harpreet Kaur and Jaswinder Kaur. When enquired, the passenger said she had bought the pass from a shop that displayed the railway booking board. She said that she had paid Rs 1,880 for the pass from December 29, 2022 to January 28, 2023 and paid Rs 2,548 for another pass from September 29 to December 28, 2022. As per her statement, she was told by the shopkeeper that the passes were available at discounted rates. The passenger has been detained by the police and further proceedings are being carried out at the police station,” Western Railway chief spokesperson Sumit Thakur said.
While Harpreet Kaur, deputy chief ticketing inspector, Andheri, is a two-time international silver medallist in 400-metre hurdles in athletics, who represented India thrice and is also a three-year inter-railways gold medallist in the 400-metre event, three-year national champion and at present is an athletics coach for the WR women’s team.
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