Tout nabbed earlier, held again for selling VIP quota rly ticket
Lok Shakti passenger leads rail officials to tout who sold him VIP quota ticket; Girish Cyria was earlier held in 2005 for selling tickets illegally
By Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Friday, May 15, 2009 (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article§name=News%20-%20City§id=3&contentid=2009051520090515025904557e66058c9)
With the arrest of a ticket tout on Thursday by the railway authorities, the misuse of VIP quota has come to light yet again. Girish Cyria, who has earlier been caught selling tickets illegally, was again caught on Thursday for getting a ticket in the VIP quota of a BJP member issued in the name of one Kaderbhai and selling it to another person named K Sanjiv. Cyria, his brother-in-law Girish Nakoda and Mahendra were earlier nabbed by the Railway vigilance at Gandigram station were caught selling tickets in dummy names on October 2005.
Since then they have flourished. Railway Protection Force officials, however, said Cyria was arrested for the first time.According to railway sources, on May 12, a VIP quota request was sent on the letter head of BJP member Suresh Patni, a member of the DRUCC (Divisional Railway Users Consultative Committee), for a person named Kaderbhai who was travelling by the third AC in Lok Shakti Express to Mumbai on the same day. A berth was allotted to the person.
When officials of the commerical department came checking for Kaderbhai, they found a person named K Sanjiv sitting on that seat. This aroused the officials’ suspicion who questioned Sanjiv where he got the ticket from. Sanjiv revealed that his company had booked it for him, sources said.On checking with the company, the officials found that the ticket was procured from a person named Girish Cyria who lived near Subhash Bridge. After getting Cyria’s address, RPF personnel raided his place and arrested him on Wednesday. Cyria was presented before the railway judge who released him on a bail of Rs 4,000.
When Suresh Patni was asked how his letter had landed in the hands of a tout, Patni said, “I have told the railway authorities that the said letter issued in Kaderbhai’s name does not have my signature or stamp. And I know nothing about this letter.”
Senior DCM Udayshankar Jha said, “We’ve been receiving a lot of complaints of misuse of VIP quota letters. This is a serious matter and we will thoroughly investigate it.”
By Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Friday, May 15, 2009 (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article§name=News%20-%20City§id=3&contentid=2009051520090515025904557e66058c9)
With the arrest of a ticket tout on Thursday by the railway authorities, the misuse of VIP quota has come to light yet again. Girish Cyria, who has earlier been caught selling tickets illegally, was again caught on Thursday for getting a ticket in the VIP quota of a BJP member issued in the name of one Kaderbhai and selling it to another person named K Sanjiv. Cyria, his brother-in-law Girish Nakoda and Mahendra were earlier nabbed by the Railway vigilance at Gandigram station were caught selling tickets in dummy names on October 2005.
Since then they have flourished. Railway Protection Force officials, however, said Cyria was arrested for the first time.According to railway sources, on May 12, a VIP quota request was sent on the letter head of BJP member Suresh Patni, a member of the DRUCC (Divisional Railway Users Consultative Committee), for a person named Kaderbhai who was travelling by the third AC in Lok Shakti Express to Mumbai on the same day. A berth was allotted to the person.
When officials of the commerical department came checking for Kaderbhai, they found a person named K Sanjiv sitting on that seat. This aroused the officials’ suspicion who questioned Sanjiv where he got the ticket from. Sanjiv revealed that his company had booked it for him, sources said.On checking with the company, the officials found that the ticket was procured from a person named Girish Cyria who lived near Subhash Bridge. After getting Cyria’s address, RPF personnel raided his place and arrested him on Wednesday. Cyria was presented before the railway judge who released him on a bail of Rs 4,000.
When Suresh Patni was asked how his letter had landed in the hands of a tout, Patni said, “I have told the railway authorities that the said letter issued in Kaderbhai’s name does not have my signature or stamp. And I know nothing about this letter.”
Senior DCM Udayshankar Jha said, “We’ve been receiving a lot of complaints of misuse of VIP quota letters. This is a serious matter and we will thoroughly investigate it.”
