HC orders audit of Metro SOPs on missing persons
14 Jan 2018 10:48 PM IST
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has ordered an assessment of the Delhi Metro's standard operating procedures (SOPs) in the event of someone going missing from its stations, to see if these were being actually implemented.
The direction for an audit of the SOPs was given by a bench of justices Vipin Sanghi and P S Teji to a court- appointed committee which was set up in July last year to frame guidelines to prevent incidents of people going missing while travelling on the metro.
The committee was set up after a mentally-challenged 19- year-old woman went missing from a metro station on April 21 last year while travelling with her family.
She had failed to get down at the Jahangirpur Metro Station with her family and according to CCTV footage of the next station, she got down and exited the station after 'tailgating' another passenger.
She was missing for nearly three months and on July 17, 2017 was found wandering in Rewari district of Haryana by a policeman.
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