The Hyderabad police on Friday arrested seven accused agents, who hacked the Regional Passport Office (RPO) website (www.passport.gov.in) and blocked the slots under the tatkal online booking.
Details of the investigation
A huge rush of applications was seen since February this year and the applicants failed to get slots. On the other hand, Gorantla Lathadar Rao (36), a shop owner and holder of PG Diploma in Computer Applications, found bugs on the passport office website and accessed the National Information Centre (NIC) server.
Due to this, Rao had an easy access to the passport applications and he submitted them on the website with confirmed dates, before the actual official release of the dates.
Shaik Subhani (34), a travel agent from Narasaraopet in Guntur district, registered passports online under the Tatkal scheme and was given a commission of Rs. 100 per application.
Subhani further hired seven agents in the city and they gave him the passport applications. These applications were passed on to Rao who updated the passport applications, along with dates on the website.
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