So either that's a good sum to their standard of living, or the data isn't all that personal and private in the first place.

The transit nerd in me kind of wants to buy it, not for maliciously tracking the customers, but to analyze the commuter and intercity travel patterns of 30m people.

Are there any potential consequences to buying data like this? I'd also be interested in buying/analyzing some of these data sets.

IRCTC does not generally have much pii, except for adressess, phones, email. Aadhar can be linked but that on its own is not useful. Moreover a lot of accounts are burner accounts so the data is likely to be fake.

IANAL but, at the very least, you can't be charged with identity theft if you never actually use a stolen identity for anything.

Does anyone buying an "exclusive" copy actually believe they're getting that?

The pricing is also interesting from another angle, if we take them at their word ("5 copies" vs "exclusive"): why accept 25% less overall? Assuming this is a cryptocurrency transaction, it surprises me the simplicity of dealing with a single buyer is worth that. Can anyone with more insight explain?

Possibly low demand for this because of the country, not a high income country to spam, scams or steal identities.