John Wilbert
Port Blair, Feb 21: An FIR has been registered in the case of Government Ferry Ticket Fraud that was been detected by an alert Tally Clerk of the Havelock area recently.
The Director In charge, Directorate of Shipping Services, Dr RD Tripathy has confirmed Andaman Sheekha that an FIR has been launched in this matter.
However, when asked about other details the DSS, he said that the matter is under investigation and Police is conducting an inquiry in this regard.
Andaman Sheekha has also learnt that a separate complaint letter has also been addressed to the Superintendent of Police, District by an unknown person of Delhi about the Government Ferry Ticket fraud.
As per rule Islanders get ferry tickets for Havelock at around Rs 50 while tourists have to pay somewhere around Rs 445 for a ferry ticket from Port Blair to Havelock.
Recently an alert Tally Clerk had detected a possible fraud in issuance of Government Ferry tickets for Havelock sector by CSCs.
As per report the said Tally Clerk has detected as many as 22 tickets in one day, which were issued to tourists by a particular CSC at Port Blair, in Islanders’ fare, while the CSC centre has charged full amount of Rs. 445 (non-Islander fare) from tourist.
It seems the particular CSC centre has paid only Rs. 50 to government while the rest amount has been gobbled up by the CSC.
Luckily the passenger manifest, which is created by the software clearly showed that the tourists paid only Rs. 50 to government on which the Tally clerk detected the fraud.
