More than 1,417 males de-boarded from ‘women-only’ coaches

More than 1,417 males travelling illegally in the ‘women only’ coaches of the Delhi Metro were nabbed and de-boarded this year, an official data (January-March 2015) has revealed.

These males, across various age groups, were apprehended by the officials and special squads of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) during this period.

 “We have increased vigil and generation of mass awareness against this practise by various agencies working to secure the Delhi Metro,” said a CISF official.

The CISF, after nabbing the offenders, hands them over to the local police and they are fined Rs 250 under Section 64 (1) of the Delhi Metro Railway (Operations and Maintenance) Act, 2000.

The security force, over the last few years, has intensified its checks and patrols in the coaches and its men and women personnel travel inside these earmarked spaces in uniform or in casuals to catch offenders.

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) keeps one coach reserved for women passengers in each train.

Recently, the CISF has trained and deployed a special Filipino martial-art trained ‘Kali commando’ women squad for carrying out special checks and operations against such miscreants, who travel in women’s coaches or pose trouble to female commuters.

These women are trained in the martial-art form of ‘Pekiti-Tirsia Kali’ wherein they are trained to tactically use common objects worn on the body like pens, hairpins, caps, belts, shoe laces, keys and sandals as deadly weapons to take on rogue elements.