nashik the railway protection force rpf and the vigilance team of central railways who arrested two persons in two separate raids in nashik and bhiwandi on saturday are well aware of the websites selling software for booking railway tickets for agents but they are unable to do anything in this regard as these businessmen are out of jurisdiction of the railways there are a number of such online ticket booking software available online on websites a search for irctc online software showcases a plethora of websites offering excellent choices for agents in the business however we cannot book these dealers since they are out of our jurisdiction said a senior vigilance officer of the central railway who was part of the team that raided the offices in nashik and bhiwandi and arrested touts booking tickets illegally and sell them at higher rates to customerssuch software sellers are out of our reach ironically these dealers have their contact details and even online chat facilities on the website to help you understand how the software works their software keep the data entry for the person who wants to book the ticket and in a flash this data is fed in the ticket requisition form of irctc and the ticket is booked this happens in three to seven seconds while a normal person entering the data requires about 25 to 35 seconds the officer pointed out these software are tracked by the indian railway catering and tourism corporation irctc and transactions from the respective login ids are blocked as and when noticed the system is trying to evaluate how the data is fed in irctc reservation requisition form and when it finds the use of software it blocks the login id and mobile number associated with it but the rpf which has powers to protect railway property does not have any powers to go after these people who opening run the illegal business he added these people also carry out business using proxy internet protocol addresses which misleads the irctc software tracking the system as well as the investigating agencies the person books tickets from the same computer by changing the ip address which is done by a team of experts hired by the dealers its a huge racket the officer disclosedsince the railways gets full value for the tickets sold and the irctc too gets its dues the government authority does not suffer losses however it is the genuine passengers who miss out on booking tickets and then have no choice but to shell out extra money to buy tickets from toutsthe officer added that such activities were violating the information technology laws