Slapped with sec 420 for faking rail pass

Kalyan GRP booked 26-yr-old for scanning someone else's season pass and using it to commute

To save a couple of hundred rupees, Lonavla's Ramkrishna Sarang, a marketing executive employed with an auto firm in the city , went through the trouble of rigging up an old monthly railway pass and trying to palm it off as his own.

A week back, the 26-year-old was on his way to the city in an express train when RD Bhanot, a Central Railway Ticket Collector entered his bogey in Kalyan at about 1 pm. When he came to check for his monthly season ticket (MST), Sarang was unfazed.

He fished into his pocket, pulled the wallet out, flipped it open, and flashed his pass, duly signed, inserted underneath the transparent plastic compartment of the wallet.

Something amiss

The TC almost bought it for an authentic one, when he sensed something amiss. He asked Sarang to pull out the pass. Sarang hesitated, stalled, and started arguing with Bhanot. Bhanot got suspicious.

Upon close observation, he found that that the pass was thicker than usual, and had a split along the edges.

He peeled it off, to find that Sarang had pasted a scanned copy of a pass that belonged to one Deepak Patil on another paper to make it thicker.

The TC asked him his name and he gave out his real name. His ID also said the same. He was asked to detrain, and brought to the Kalyan GRP. Upon verification it was established that the pass was phoney.

Booked

An FIR was lodged against him under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code.

"The MST was kept inside the wallet, under a plastic cover. But on keen examination, the TC spotted an error. When he asked Sarang to pull the pass out, he started arguing. So the TC called the Railway Protection Force (RPF) for help.

On verification, it was confirmed that the pass was a copy of somebody else's pass," informed a CR official.
He could have been doing this for years, cops said.
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"After interrogation, Sarang revealed that the MST was originally Patil's, that he had scanned it and had been using it without altering it, just to save some money," the official said.

A R Jagtap, senior inspector (GRP), Kalyan, said, "We arrested Sarang in the case, but he paid a fine and was released."