Use of any application to fraudulently help people jump reservation que illegal: Rail ADG PR

Railway Additional Directorate General of Public Information (ADG) of Public Relations D J Narain said on Monday several newspapers and websites have reported arrest of a techie who has developed app for faster e-tickets through www.irctc.co.in

It may be noticed that under Section 143(2) of Railway Act- carrying of unauthorised business of procuring and supplying railway tickets is illegal. Use of an application to fraudulently help few to jump the que is illegal too and falls with in the same ambit of illegality, he said.

IRCTC has already had these features which have been listed in the application made by the said accused. However they were disabled to ensure level playing field for all the users. There is nothing so new in Computer Application made by the said accused, Narain.

It may be mentioned that the IRCTC website is available for booking of railway e-tickets so that general users are able to book tickets in normal way without aid of any illegal software, he said, adding to prevent illegal software that are available in the market, several steps have been taken including increasing the minimum time of booking of e-tickets to 55 seconds and introduction of several captchas.
“The monitoring is done on regular basis of suspicious transactions and user ids are activated daily of suspicious users.”

The faster app mentioned in the reports is in fact not a faster app. Through this app he was illegally booking e-tickets making money from the Railway facility and also charging people to use his app contrary to reports, the ADG PR said.