Western Rly catches 76 women ‘bullies’

MUMBAI: In a pressure by way of Western Railway, 76 ladies commuters have been arrested since June 12 for ‘bullying and blocking doorways of compartments for different passengers’.
The ladies bullies arrested have been those travelling from suburbs between Borivli and Virar and such incidents have been reported each all the way through morning and evening rush hour, officials stated.




Those arrested have been booked underneath sections 154 and 156 of Railway Act, produced ahead of the magistrate and fined Rs 500 every, assets stated.

While providing main points on Sunday, WR chief spokesperson Ravinder Bhakar stated that the pressure had begun from June 12 when the RPF workforce apprehended 19 ladies for bullying and blocking the compartment doorways for different commuters. WR common supervisor A Okay Gupta had interacted with ladies passengers all the way through a feedback pressure carried out earlier this month. A total of 488 ladies had participated in the feedback campaign between June four and 8.

Several ladies complained about being assaulted or no longer allowed to enter compartments by way of ‘bullies’. The latter would abuse ladies commuters and block doorways. If any person sought after to enter the compartment, she would once in a while be pushed out forcibly, assets stated.


Such incidents would recur mainly in rapid trains. The pressure will proceed on Monday. One hundred and twenty unlawful distributors have been caught following complaints from ladies commuters.


For ladies’s safety, WR officials additionally carried out a survey and found that the CCTV cameras supplied at suburban stations weren't properly overlaying spaces near the ladies compartments of suburban trains. The cameras have been relocated at 73 puts on several WR platforms.


“The 12 months 2018-19 has been devoted against safety of women and youngsters in trains. We rescued 1,008 children in 2017 of which 335 have been women and 673 have been boys. In the present 12 months, 330 children had been rescued (up to May) of which 110 are women and 220 are boys,” stated Bhakar.


Help desks for runaway kids had been set up at Mumbai Central station and Bandra Terminus . “The RPF squads additionally caught more than 400 men travelling in ladies coaches and more than 30 drug addicts who will have posed threat to the security of women passengers,” an respectable added.
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