Consider manning AFC gates at all stations: High Court to DMRC

The DMRC on Thursday was asked by the Delhi High Court to consider manning its exit gates at all the stations after some incidents of people going missing from there was brought to the court's attention.

A Bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and A K Pathak said such measures of manning the automatic fare collection exit gates were also necessary for the security of the metro system. It also asked the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation and the Metro Police to file affidavits containing data of last three years with regard to persons going missing while taking rides on metro trains.

"The Delhi Metro should consider, in the wake of such incidents (of persons going missing from metro stations), the desirability of manning the AFC gates at all metro stations so that children, disabled or vulnerable persons and those without tickets are checked while exiting. Such measures are also necessary from the point of view of security of the metro system," the bench said.

The direction was issued in a habeas corpus matter initiated by the court itself after it came across a news report that a speech-and-hearing impaired 19-year-old woman had gone missing after getting separated from her family and exited at the wrong station.