Shohoz official among nine held over scalping train tickets

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested nine people, including an official at Shohoz, the company responsible for Bangladesh Railway's e-ticketing system, on charges of selling train tickets on the black market, report agencies.
They were arrested from the city's Kamalapur and Sabujbagh areas on Friday, according to RAB Assistant Director (Media Officer) Superintendent of Police Md Al Amin.
Shohoz official Mizan Dhali was among the arrestees, the RAB said.
Mizan's nephew Sohel Dhali (30), office assistant of Shohoz at Kamalapur station, Shohoz's station representative Sabur Hawlader (40) and Shohoz's server room operator Newton Biswas were arrested during the drive.
The five other arrestees are Md Sumon (39), Jahangir Alam (49), Shahjalal Hossain (42), Md Rasel (24) and Joynal Abedin (46).
The elite force also recovered illegally collected train tickets from the suspects during the arrests, Al Amin said.
Commander Khandakar Al Moin, director (law and media wing) of the RAB, revealed this information at a press conference at the media centre of the elite force in the city's Karwan Bazar on Friday noon.
Mizan Dhali, now an office assistant of Shohoz at Kamalapur Railway Station, has remained in the job of selling Bangladesh Railway tickets for two decades despite changes to the system and its operators.
Throughout his time with the system, he had been black-marketing train tickets by forming a syndicate, the elite force said on Friday after arresting the 48-year-old and eight others in a drive on Thursday to stop illegal sale of train tickets ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.