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PATNA: Railways has identified vulnerable places falling under the jurisdiction of East Central Railway (ECR) and worked out a contingency plan to deploy adequate number of Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel on trains and at all major stations to ensure passengers’ security during the festive season, said RPF chief commissioner of security (ECR) cum IG S Mayank.
He said railways has also cautioned the newly constituted RPF women team, ‘Meri Saheli’, to provide all possible assistance to single woman or group of women travelling by trains from Bihar to far-off places. The ‘Meri Saheli’ team has been working round the clock at 20 major stations under ECR and escorting six long-distance passenger trains originating from Patna Junction, Danapur and Patliputra Junction, he said.
Mayank said in addition to providing security, the ‘Meri Saheli’ team was instrumental in providing medical assistance to women passengers in emergency during the Covid pandemic and rescued three minor girls from the clutches of human traffickers at Patna Junction last week.
According to the IG, the RPF team has rescued 352 boys and 244 girls from the human traffickers at different places under the ECR since January this year and prosecuted 35 human traffickers so far. The RPF men also seized banned contraband valued at Rs9.91 crore during the past three months, he said, adding that a gang of criminals involved in this clandestine business was thus unearthed and brought to book.
During the ongoing drive against criminals involved in pilferage of railway property, the RPF men recovered stolen railway property valued at Rs13.36 lakh from different places in the ECR last month. The RPF men on train escort duty have arrested 2941 people involved in alarm chain pulling (ACP) incidents and realized fine of Rs 76.84 lakh from them during the past three months, he said.
Mayank has warned passengers not to obtain journey tickets from touts. Most of these tickets were booked in the name of fake persons and false identities. RPF men have arrested 246 touts at Patna and other places in the state in the last two to three months, he said.
He said railways has also cautioned the newly constituted RPF women team, ‘Meri Saheli’, to provide all possible assistance to single woman or group of women travelling by trains from Bihar to far-off places. The ‘Meri Saheli’ team has been working round the clock at 20 major stations under ECR and escorting six long-distance passenger trains originating from Patna Junction, Danapur and Patliputra Junction, he said.
Mayank said in addition to providing security, the ‘Meri Saheli’ team was instrumental in providing medical assistance to women passengers in emergency during the Covid pandemic and rescued three minor girls from the clutches of human traffickers at Patna Junction last week.
According to the IG, the RPF team has rescued 352 boys and 244 girls from the human traffickers at different places under the ECR since January this year and prosecuted 35 human traffickers so far. The RPF men also seized banned contraband valued at Rs9.91 crore during the past three months, he said, adding that a gang of criminals involved in this clandestine business was thus unearthed and brought to book.
During the ongoing drive against criminals involved in pilferage of railway property, the RPF men recovered stolen railway property valued at Rs13.36 lakh from different places in the ECR last month. The RPF men on train escort duty have arrested 2941 people involved in alarm chain pulling (ACP) incidents and realized fine of Rs 76.84 lakh from them during the past three months, he said.
Mayank has warned passengers not to obtain journey tickets from touts. Most of these tickets were booked in the name of fake persons and false identities. RPF men have arrested 246 touts at Patna and other places in the state in the last two to three months, he said.
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