Staff Reporter :The members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested five suspected train ticket black marketeers from Kamalapur Railway Station in the city on Thursday morning.The elite force also recovered 27 train tickets and Tk 2.3 lakh in cash from their possession. The identities, however, could not be known instantly.Captain Maksudul Alam, Senior Assistant Director of RAB, legal and media wing, said that a team of RAB-3 conducted a drive at the station and arrested them in the morning.Thousands of people flocked to the Kamalapur Railway Station for tickets on Thursday, as sale of advance tickets began on Tuesday.Thousands of people were seen waiting in long queues for advance tickets. Some of them came to Kamalapur Railway Station on Wednesday night. Biswanath Dey, a railway employee, said that many ticket seekers reached the station in the morning. Those who came late in the morning had to remain at the end of the queue, he said.Many of the ticket purchasers were found anxious about tickets. Those who finally got tickets left the station in the cheerful mood and gleaming face. Meanwhile, Railway Minister Mujibul Haque said that trains would run as per their normal schedule during the Eid-ul-Azha holidays. The railway authorities had been asked to ensure it. Law enforcers and mobile courts were deployed to check the menace of ticket touts at railway stations, he added. Bangladesh Railway (BR) began selling advance train tickets from 9:00am yesterday, while the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) is scheduled to start sale of advance bus tickets from today. Sources said 138 coaches from the railway workshop will be added to the existing trains, while 224 locomotives would be pressed into service across the country daily ahead of Eid.Railway authorities will sell 14000 tickets each day from Dhaka of which 9100 tickets would be available from railway counter while rest of the tickets will be sold quota, sources said.
