OREANDA-NEWS. August 10, 2011. To curb the activities of touts, checks are conducted by Commercial and Vigilance Departments in and around reservation offices, stations and also in trains in association with Railway Protection Force. This is a continuous/ongoing process, reported the press-centre of Indian Railways.

Checks against touts are intensified during peak rush and festival periods. In addition, travelling public are educated through various media to desist from procuring tickets from unauthorized people. Touts apprehended are prosecuted under the provision of the law.

No incident of touts booking mass train tickets for devotees bound to Amritsar has come to notice. However, 16 passengers were detected travelling on transferred tickets from New Delhi to Amritsar and back in train No. 12030, Swaran Shatabdi Express and railway dues amounting to Rs. 40,800/- recovered from them. One more case of an imposter, posing a Railway Protection Officer, was detected on Northern Railway and action has been taken under Sections 170, 171 and 468 of Indian Penal Code by Government Railway Police.