An Indian Institute of Technology, Anna University alumnus S Yuvarajaa from Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu was arrested by the Railway Protection Force's (RPF) intelligence unit (Tirupur) and Cyber Cell at Southern Railway Headquarters (Chennai), on October 23. The suspect was filed for developing two android applications (Super Tatkal and Super Tatkal Pro) that reportedly helped users to book Tatkal tickets by giving a wide berth to security checks on the IRCTC portal.
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The sources said the mobile application developed by Yuvaraja bypasses Completely Automated Public Turing Test (CAPTCHA) that users must fill in while logging in to IRCTC. The investigating team also found that the application bypasses the one-time-password stage while performing money transactions with some private banks. To bypass, every user had to purchase a Rs 20 coins pack each containing 10 coins. And for every transaction, five coins would be deducted from users' coins balance. The suspect bank account will be credited with the ticket charge from the user account, to the surprise the application was active from 2016.
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A twitter user defending Yuvaraja tweeted, " Yuvarajaa is being falsely accused of creating fake applications and swindling money. A bright engineer and entrepreneur's life is being spoiled through the arrest". Under Section 143 (2) of Railways Act 1989, such transactions involving procuring and supplying of railway tickets by any unauthorised person(s) is a punishable offence. Both the applications has been removed from the Google Play store.