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Rail racket busted, 563 ID and more than 3000 bank accounts with agent

New Delhi The Railways on Tuesday busted a racket whose wires are connected to Dubai, Pakistan and Bangladesh for e-ticketing. Railway Protection Force RPF DG Arun Kumar said that there is a possibility of terrorism funding behind it. The racket leader is in Dubai. There have been shocking revelations during the investigation. Accounts of the same person arrested in this case have been found in 2,400 branches of State Bank of India.

RPF DG said that Ghulam Mustafa, who hails from Jharkhand, has been arrested. He has 563 IDs of IRCTC. Apart from this, there are suspicions that SBI has bank accounts in 2,400 branches and 600 branches of regional rural banks.

Arun Kumar said that Ghulam Mustafa, arrested in connection with the e-ticketing racket, has been questioned by the IB, Special Bureau, ED, NIA and Karnataka Police. The racket’s mastermind software developer Hamid Ashraf was involved in a bomb blast at Gonda’s school in 2019. He is currently in Dubai.

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