Bangladesh
Railway Tickets Nine arrested for selling railway tickets illegally
Own Correspondent, Dhaka, March 23, 2024: The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested nine people including sahaj.com peon Md Mizan Dhali and server operator Newton Biswas, one of the masterminds of the train ticket black market ring. RAB and National Security Intelligence (NSI) jointly arrested them in raids from Kamalapur and Sabuj Bagh areas of the capital. Evidence of black market and large number of illegally collected and stocked train tickets were seized from them.
According to RAB, Mizan joined the Kamalapur railway station branch as a peon in 2003. Later he was retained as an experienced worker. In 2020, when the railway ticket contract was given to Sahaja, the arrested Mizan's job was retained. Meezan has long been involved in the black market of train tickets.
Newton, on the other hand, joined CNS BD as a station support worker in 2012 and became a server operator in 2016. In 2020, Sahaj's contract kept him in his job and he was again given the responsibility of server operator.
RAB also said that being a server operator, he knew the details about the schedule and tickets of various trains, so he used to provide the information to Mizan, the master of the syndicate. Meezan and Newton have long been involved in the black market of train tickets. On Thursday night, based on intelligence information, RAB-3 arrested them by conducting raids in Kamalapur and Sabuj Bagh areas of the capital.
The arrested are Md Mizan Dhali (48), Md Sohail Dhali (30), Md Suman (39), Md Jahangir Alam (49), Md Shahjalal Hossain (42), Md Russell (24), Md Zainal Abedin (46), Md. Sabur Howladar (40) and Newton Biswas (40).
A large number of train tickets from different parts of the country, eight mobile phones, one NID, one driving license, various signs of black market and 11 thousand 422 taka in cash from the sale of tickets were seized.
