21 women pickpockets held in Metro trains

Twenty-one women pickpockets were apprehended and fined over Rs 3,000 on Sunday as part of a special crackdown by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) security personnel in the Delhi Metro trains.

The operation was carried out at some of the busiest stations such as Rajiv Chowk, Barakhamba Road and Kashmere Gate by the plainclothes intelligence wing personnel of CISF, officials said.

“These women pickpockets were fined a total of Rs 3,190 as per the Delhi Metro rules and later sent out of the Metro. Such drives will be undertaken at other stations of the rail system in the coming days,” a senior official said.

On Saturday, 21 pickpockets were held as part of a similar drive in the yellow line (Samaypur Badli-Huda City centre) of the Metro. 

An average of 26 lakh people take the Delhi Metro everyday to reach their destinations in the national capital region of Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon and Faridabad.