5 arrested for black marketing train tickets: Rab

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion have arrested five members of a gang for black marketing train tickets, from Dhaka's Kamalapur Railway Station.

They arrestees are Md Selim (48), the kingpin; Shah Alam (34), Md Liton (35), Abdur Rashid Fakir (30) and Khokon Mia (58), said Lt Col Arif Mohiuddin Ahmed, commanding officer of Rab-3, at a press conference today (October 20, 2022).

At the time, 88 train tickets were recovered from their possession, said the Rab Co.

They had been selling tickets of different trains at inflated prices, he said.

The arrestees charged double of the actual ticket price, sometimes even more. Selim told Rab that they sold Tk 500 ticket at a maximum price of Tk 2,000 during the last Eid-ul-Azha.