MUMBAI: Investigations in the ticket booking for the Ganapati festival has revealed that during the first four minutes of the opening date, a staggering 54,401 bookings were made for the period of September 15 to 21 as against the available capacity of 35406 seats, indicating a massive demand that far exceeds the availability of berths.
Following, complaints of existence of a racket involved in booking railway tickets an investigation was conducted.