CBI techie arrested for subverting Indian Railways' Tatkal reservation system hosted 'cheat' software on US server

CBI has written to the United States and Russia, through the Interpol, seeking information about servers on which its arrested software programmer had hosted his illegal software for subverting Tatkal ticket booking New Delhi: The CBI has written to the United States and Russia, through the Interpol, seeking information about servers on which its arrested software programmer had hosted his illegal software for subverting Tatkal ticket booking system of the Indian Railways. The CBI sources said an initial investigation it has emerged that Ajay Garg, an assistant programmer at the agency, and his front, Anil Gupta, had hosted their illegal software on a USA-based server while emails were created on a Russian server to avoid detection. They said the software created by them had to be hosted on a server and the end users could access it through a username and password provided by Garg and Gupta. “…it usually takes 120 seconds in the normal course for a generation of a single PNR but this illegal software enables the user to book multiple Tatkal tickets online in much less time,” the CBI FIR alleged.