Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested nine operatives of an organized gang involved with train tickets black market from several areas of Dhaka on Thursday night.

The arrestees are Dali Syndicate’s mastermind Md Mizan Dali, 48, his cohorts Md Sohel Dali, 30, Md Suman, 39, Md Jahangir Alam, 49, Md Shahjahan Hossain, 42, Md Russell, 24, Md Joynal Abedin, 46, Md Sabur Hawlader, 40, and Newton Biswas, 40.

Commander Khandakar Al Moin, director (law and media wing) of the RAB, revealed this information at a press conference at the media centre of the elite force in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar on Friday noon.

Several teams of the RAB-3 conducted drives in Dhaka’s Sabujbagh and Kamlapur areas after they received allegations of black market of train tickets in collaboration with online ticket seller organization Shohoz.com, he said.

A huge number of train tickets of several parts of the country, eight mobile phone sets, one NID, one driving license, and Tk 11, 422 in cash were recovered from the arrestees during the drives, the RAB officer said.

Of the arrestees, server operator of Shohoz.com’s Kamalapur rail station Newton Biswas, station representative Sabur Hawlader and absconding accused Abdul Mottalib, Ashiqur Rahman and others were involved with the black market, he said.

Arrestee Mizan was the mastermind of all syndicates involved with black market of train tickets and he used to maintain a good relationship with the Shohoj.com office and others involved with the Bangladesh Railways (BR), Commander Moin said.

Operator Newton used to provide Mizan with all information about train schedules and tickets, he said.

Legal actions were taken against the arrestees in this regard, he added.