Two men posing as Travelling Ticket Examiners (TTE) were arrested by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) as they fraudulently checked tickets on trains plying on the Dimapur-Agartala route between Nagaland and Tripura.
The accused, identified as Hussain Ali and Kaushik Sarkar were arrested on Thursday after they were found checking tickets on passenger trains on the route, as per an India Today report.
Hussain Ali was checking tickets on the 05676 Dimapur-Agartala passenger train, while Kaushik Sarkar was on passenger train number 05675 plying on the same section. Suspicious of their working style and mannerisms, RPF officials Ajit Kumar Sarkar and Anjan Paul who were on escort duty on the train confronted Hussain.
They asked the accused to show his identity card and authority letter.
At first, Hussain said he was a newly-appointed TTE and so was checking the ticker. However, later he admitted that he had no documents of authorisation to this effect.
A cross-verification was done by the ticket-checking officer of Dimapur also who found Hussain to be an impostor. Subsequently, Hussain was arrested and sent to jail.
Meanwhile, senior TTE Subrajit Paul who was working on the 05675 passenger train grew suspicious of Kaushik Sarkar. The accused first said he got a job with the railways as a ticker examiner, but could not produce any kind of authority letter or identity card.
Paul caught Sarkar and handed him over to the Government Railway Police (GRP), who registered a case and arrested him.