HC relief for IIT grad in Rlys’ case against Tatkal app
Bengaluru : Karnataka HC recently quashed proceedings against entrepreneur Gaurav Dahake in a case registered against him by Indian Railways, for charging Rs 30 per ticket on his software tool speeding up Tatkal bookings on the official IRCTC website. Dahake, an IIT Kharagpur graduate and native of Maharashtra, had previously founded ‘buyhatke.com’, a product price comparison online browser extension.
In Aug 2017, he developed a software tool, ‘Tatkalforsure’, to help travellers secure Tatkal tickets by auto filling traveller details on the IRCTC website. While the Railways’ website took 5-7 minutes to generate a Tatkal ticket, Dahake’s tool could do it in just 45 seconds. The service was initially free, but in Feb 2020, Dahake limited bookings through his extension to 10 and began charging Rs 30 per booking. HC observed that the ingredients of Section 143 of the Railways Act, under which Dahake was booked, weren’t present in this case as he had neither procured nor distributed railway tickets, which is necessary for an offence here.
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