Mumbai: The Govt Railway Police (GRP) registered an FIR against a 30-year-old female passenger for using a fake season pass over a bogus app which was created by her 31-year-old male friend. Police have booked her friend as well.The FIR was lodged on the basis of a statement given by a ticket checker with Western Railway.On Jan 9, the ticket checker entered the first-class coach of an Up fast Churchgate local and started asking passengers to show their tickets. Around 10.30 am, when the train had reached Khar Road station, a female passenger produced a season pass in her cellphone. The pass validity was from Jan 1 to Jan 31 and it was valid for AC locals between Churchgate and Vasai stations. The ticket checker found something amiss when the female passenger, Priti G, couldn’t provide satisfactory answers to her queries. The checker then asked Priti to get off the train and accompany her to the TC office at Bandra station for questioning. The ticket checker then got in touch with the control room at Lower Parel and asked them to cross check Priti’s pass details on the system. It was found that no valid pass had been issued to her since 2023.Eventually, Priti admitted that her friend, Anuj Kishore, had created a fake ticketing app and forwarded it to her over WhatsApp. She downloaded the app on her phone and was using it.She was then handed over to the GRP for further investigations.
