Alert! If you book someone else's ticket with your IRCTC ID, you may have to go to jail, know how

If you also book the train tickets of your friends to help these street people, then be careful, if you book someone else's train ticket with your IRCTC ID, you may have to face jail. Know here why you cannot book another person's train ticket with your ID.

Most of you book train tickets of others from your IRCTC account. Let us tell you that this action of yours can cause a lot of harm to you. Even if you are helping someone else, your help can cost you dearly. Due to this, you may be sentenced to jail for 3 years and may also have to pay a fine of Rs 10,000. Know here what are the rules regarding ticket booking of IRCTC. Whose tickets can you book using your ID? Booking whose tickets can be harmful for you.

Booking someone else's ticket using personal ID is a crime

Booking tickets for others using personal ID can cost you heavily. Actually, under Section 143, train tickets can be booked only by a person who has been officially appointed. Only these people can book tickets for others with their ID.

A normal person can book tickets using his personal ID only for his blood relations and people with the same surname. Apart from this, if someone books the ticket of a friend or someone else, then he can be fined Rs 10,000 or jail for 3 years. In many cases both these punishments can be given.

Ticket booking time and rules

If you want to book Tatkal AC ticket then it starts at 10 am. Booking of non-AC tickets starts at 11 am. A user can book up to 24 tickets in a month from one user ID on the IRCTC website. Note that you can do this only when your user ID is linked to your Aadhar card. If your user ID is not linked to Aadhaar then you can book only up to 12 tickets in a month.