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Time of India
a day ago
- Time of India
Former train vendor poses as TTE, earns up to Rs 10k per day from ticket-less travellers
Agra: A 40-year-old man, who was earlier a bottled water vendor on trains, was arrested by a Govt Railway Police (GRP) team at Aligarh railway station on Saturday evening for allegedly impersonating as a travelling ticket examiner (TTE) and charging hefty amounts from unsuspecting ticket-less passengers. Devendra Kumar, who hails from Saharanpur and was currently residing in Ghaziabad, was found posing as a TTE -- complete with the black coat and trousers worn by the ticket examiners. Officials found several tickets on him while he was 'checking' passengers on Gomti Express. Police said Kumar used to purchase general coach tickets in bulk and board long-distance trains to sell them to passengers found without tickets — as "part of an official checking drive". He used to mainly target those who were "less-educated and hailing from rural areas", police added. During interrogation, he revealed that he was earlier a vendor selling bottled water on trains plying between Haridwar and Bengaluru. But once his contract ended a year ago, he became jobless, and thereafter devised a plan to "earn quick money". A GRP official, privy to the case, said Kumar would charge "penalties" or sell passengers pre-purchased tickets, making Rs 7,000 to Rs 10,000 daily. He added Kumar was being followed by a RPF-GRP team while he was duping passengers on board the Gomti Express. He was arrested in Aligarh after "he failed to provide a valid id such as the documentation proving his employment with the Indian Railways and any explanation for his action". SHO of GRP thana in Aligarh, Sandeep Tomar, said, "A case under BNS sections 319-2 (deceiving someone by pretending to be another person) and 318-2 (cheating) was registered and the accused was sent to jail on Sunday. An investigation is on to find out how long he had been cheating people and whether he was operating on his own."
Mint
13-05-2025
- Mint
UP shocker! Retired soldier murdered, body chopped into 6 pieces by wife, lover in Ballia
A 44-year-old woman, Maya Devi, has been arrested for allegedly getting her lover and his associates to allegedly kill her ex-Army soldier husband and chop him into six pieces in a village in Ballia of Uttar Pradesh. The accused then threw his body parts at six different locations to conceal his identity. The incident only came to light on Saturday when the police recovered severed hands, legs wrapped in a polythene near a field near Khareed village. He was identified as 62-year-old retired Army personnel Devendra Kumar. When grilled, the woman first tried to misled the police and filed a missing person's complaint. Things took a dramatic turn, when her own daughter, Ambli Gautam, testified against Maya Devi and accused her of killing her father. Based on the complaint, Maya Devi was booked under charges of murder and arrested. The other accused have been identified as her lover Anil Yadav, and his friends – Mithilesh Patel and Satish Yadav. Also Read | 'Can someone haunt me after death?': What UK man searched online after chopping wife's body into 200 pieces SP Omvir Singh said, 'On May 10, a woman filed a missing person report, claiming her husband had gone to Buxar to pick up their daughter but never returned. However, an investigation revealed that the husband's phone location never left the original area and was never traced to Buxar.' 'As the investigation progressed, it was found that the woman was allegedly involved in an extramarital affair, and the murder was carried out in collaboration with her partner and accomplices. A total of four individuals, including the wife, have been arrested.' 'The victim was brutally murdered, dismembered into six pieces, and the body parts were scattered across different locations. The head has not yet been recovered, and search efforts are still underway,' Omvir Singh said. According to police, the group killed Devendra Kumar inside his home in Bahadurpur locality and then cut the body into six parts, severing both arms, legs, and the head, before dumping the pieces in separate locations to prevent identification. At Maya Devi's instance, police recovered the torso from a well in Khareed Darauli village.
