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Inspector, Railway Protection Force, Kottayam v. Mathew K Cherian & Anr.

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Reported as [2025] 1 S.C.R. 498
Bench Dipankar Datta and Prashant Kumar Mishra JJ.
Decided 8 January 2025

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, the lead appeal deserves to be allowed and consequently, the criminal proceedings against Mathew need to be restored.

Judgment, page 17

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Issue for Consideration 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 the Railways Act, 1989. Headnotes† 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 authorised to procure and supply

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