Several persons were earlier arrested for their alleged involvementThe Central Bureau of Investigation has taken over the probe against a syndicate that used an illegal railway e-ticketing software to make crores by facilitating faster multiple booking of e-tickets through hundreds of IRCTC accounts. Auto-filling of dataThe illegal software provides facilities like auto-filling of details of passengers, trains, travel plans and bank accounts, and auto login on IRCTC, besides captcha and OTP bypass. During interrogation, Mustafa purportedly disclosed that he had 563 personal user IDs of IRCTC and used them for booking e-tickets through the software. It is alleged that Mustafa used virtual private network and proxy servers to mask his location. A joint team of the CBI, Railway and the local police had arrested him in 2016.

Source: The Hindu November 20, 2020 20:32 UTC