Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 51 · Decided 8 January 2025
Inspector, Railway Protection Force, Kottayam v. Mathew K Cherian & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 51 · [2025] 1 S.C.R. 498
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 4169/2024
- Decided
- 8 January 2025
- Bench
- DIPANKAR DATTA, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 482
Headnote
Whether the act of creating fake/multiple user IDs by an individual, who may or may not be an authorized railway agent, with the intention to procure and supply online tickets through IRCTC portal would constitute an offence under Section 143 of Railways Act, 1989 - s.143 - In the first of the appeal (lead appeal), M was accused of creating fraudulent user IDs with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation web portal to procure and peddle railway tickets for profit, without being an agent
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