India, Nov. 13 -- When Nalasopara resident Rajendra Nikam, 43, was asked to produce his train ticket by a ticket checker in an air-conditioned (AC) local on Tuesday, he nonchalantly pulled it up on his mobile phone. It was an e-ticket he had purchased on the Indian Railways' UTS mobile app, or so he hoped the ticket checker would believe. But senior ticket checker Sai Prasad Sawant and his team were not fooled.

The deception was detected by Sawant during evening peak hours on the Western Railway. Sawant, who has been checking tickets inside AC locals for the last six months, was on duty from 2pm to 10pm on the Churchgate-Virar corridor.

On Tuesday, he boarded an AC slow local for Virar at Borivali at 7:16pm. "While checking tickets and ...