Thane: Police have arrested a 20-year-old man from Maharashtra's Thane city for allegedly travelling on a fake railway pass generated through the UTS mobile ticketing app, officials said on Sunday.

The man was travelling on a Dadar-Ambernath fast AC local train on Friday when the travelling ticket inspector asked him to show his ticket.

The accused showed a digital railway pass on his mobile phone's WhatsApp and it was later found to be fake, a Government Railway Police (GRP) official said. Read Also Railways Set Up Passenger Helpdesks At Mumbai Airport’s T1 & T2 Terminal Amid IndiGo Flight...

He was offloaded at Thane station and brought to the GRP police station for further inquiry.

During questioning, the man claimed that a friend forwarded the fake pass to him on WhatsApp, the

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