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Report on embezzlement of Railway money by Accounts Staff. by Accounts Staff

No. 2017/AC-I/25/2 · 2017-02-08
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Circular numberNo. 2017/AC-I/25/2
Date2017-02-08
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicticket-checking
CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded

Summary

Report on embezzlement of Railway money by Accounts Staff. by Accounts Staff A lot of सम ee raed (Simply petting them accounted as PF tickets tickets have been saved (simply getting them accounted as ‘PF’ tickets)

Text of the circular

Sevemment of India

(भारत सरकार) GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
(रेल मंत्रालय) MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

(रेलवे बोर्ड) RAILWAY BOARD
Rail Bhawan, New Delhi

RBA No. 31 /2017
No. 2017/AC-I/25/2 New Delhi 8 -03-2017

FA&CAOs,
(All Zonal Railways)

Sub :- Report on embezzlement of Railway money by Accounts Staff. by Accounts Staff.

FA&CAO/SR vide 0.0. letter No. C6/SN/UTS Fraud/2016-17 dated 8.2.2017 addressed
to Adviser/ Accounts has brought out frauds detected at various UTS locations in Southern Railway,
as brought out below:-

a) Conventional modus operandi adopted is by way of generating low value Plat Form
tickets in the system, saving the CPT stationery by not printing them immediately
and thereafter generating and issuing high value ticket in the saved stationery to the
passenger and thereafter nullifying the high value transaction through NI or Special
cancellation. The money collected from the passenger is thus permanently
misappropriated; oe

b) Recently, a different type of fraud has been reported in UTS tickets, detected during
the check of collected tickets at Pondicherry station, SR. A CPT generated under
carbon process and with mismatched CD number, issued at UTS /Banaswadi station
of SW Railway was detected;

2. In this regard copies of modus operandi of both the above frauds detected by Southern
Railway are enclosed. It is desired that FA&CAO and CCM of all the Zonal Railways may kindly
peruse the reports and introduce appropriate safety measures in the System to curb frauds and
ensure foolproof ticketing system.

3. Compliance of the above is to be sent to Accounts Directorate by 15" a 2017. /

ee
जि जी:
- (Naresh Salecha)
Adviser/ Accounts
Railway Board

Copy for information and necessary action to:-
a) Additional Member/Commercial, Railway Board;
b) EDFC, Railway Board
c) Managing Director, Centre for Railway Information System, Chanakyapuri, New
Delhi

»

SOUTHERN RAILWAY

No.C6/SN/UTS FRAUD/SWR/2016-17 DATE : 05-12-2016.

SPECIAL REPORT

FA & CAO /SN /MAS

Sub : New types of Fraud in UTS ticket transactions — reg.

-X-X-X-

Conventional frauds — Hitherto, the usual modus operandi adopted by the Delinquent
Booking clerks for permanent misappropriation of Railway earnings, which were
detected at various UTS locations, was by way of generating low value PF tickets in the
system and saving the CPT stationary by not | and saving the CPT stationary by not printing them, and immediately generating
a higher value ticket in the saved stationary and issuing to the passenger. The higher
ely

value transaction is thereafter nullified through NI or Special cancellation. The money
collected from the passenger was thus misappropriated

New Modus Operandi by way of [carbon process \ process \|- Recently, in July 2016
Sr.TIA/TBM-III during his periodical inspection at PDY, has reported collection of a
mismatched UTS ticket issued from UTS / Banaswadi (BAND) station of SW Railway,
vide CPT No.17029809 / 9817 dt. 09/7/2016, ex. BAND to PDY for 3 adults in वो M/E
for Rs.405. Apart from the mismatch, the said CPT is suspected to be of carbon print.
The collected ticket has been forwarded to Traffic Accounts Office of SW Rly for
detailed investigation.

UTS fraud at BO/KZT during 2011-2012. Cases of frauds of similar nature, viz., issue
of duplicate UTS tickets through carbog process was det UTS tickets thr rocess was detected and reported earlier during
November 2011 at UTS / KZT. By way of single print command, two tickets were found
printed simultaneously, the duplicate being printed in another saved CPT stationary
through carbon process. Such cases were detected in nine cases. In these cases, it 15
pertinent to note that there was abnormal / unusual generation of low value Platform
tickets (77 PF tickets on 23-10-2011), which 11), which could have probably been utilised for
committing such frauds

Fraud through Sharing of Output. At BO/KZT numerous unused ticket printers were
available. The possibility of printing a single transaction in 

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