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During the period of September 2025, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) of South Western Railway has rescued a full of 51 children (39 boys and 12 girls) and helped them reunite with their parents nether Operation Nanhe Farishthe.
According to a property merchandise issued by South Western Railway, these children were separated from their families for assorted reasons and RPF worked tirelessly to rescue them earlier handing them implicit to competent authorities for reuniting them with their parents.
This apart, during September, RPF undertook assorted operations to guarantee the safety, information and comfortableness of passengers, portion besides assisting Indian Railways successful delivering reliable freight transport services to its customers, the merchandise said.
Under Operation Dignity, six aged persons (one antheral and 5 females) successful request of attraction and extortion were rescued and handed implicit to their families oregon NGOs aft owed verification.
Under the Meri Saheli Initiative, RPF unit ensured harmless question for azygous and unaccompanied pistillate passengers.
Their spot and berth details were shared with presumption RPF teams for real-time monitoring and assistance and feedback was collected astatine destination stations.
At present, 32 trains nether South Western Railway are covered nether the initiative.
Under Operation Uplabdh against touts, intensive checks were conducted astatine assorted question agencies and locations crossed Karnataka and Goa.
During these drives, 46 touts were apprehended successful 35 cases nether Section 143 of the Railways Act. A full of 96 unrecorded tickets valued astatine ₹1,19,956.85 and 140 utilized tickets worthy ₹2,02,045.95 were seized, the merchandise said.
Under Operation Satark, RPF detected 9 liquor cases, recovering 168 bottles (170.010 litres) worthy ₹86,833, which were handed implicit to the Excise Department.
Under Operation Narco, 7 cases were detected, resulting successful the seizure of 53.958 kg of ganja valued astatine ₹41.26 lakh and the apprehension of 2 offenders who were handed implicit to GRP/Excise authorities for further action.
Swift response
On 66 occasions, RPF unit recovered misplaced oregon left-behind items specified arsenic laptops, mobile phones, ornaments and different idiosyncratic belongings valued astatine ₹17,33,153 and returned them to the rightful owners/passengers.
Under Operation Yatri Suraksha meant for protecting passengers, a thief was apprehended by the Crime Prevention Detection Squad (CPDS) squad and handed implicit to GRP successful Davangere.
Stolen mobile phones valued astatine ₹15,899 were recovered from the accused.
This apart, an mean of 32-35 Express and Special trains were escorted regular by 85-90 RPF unit crossed the zone, ensuring continuous vigilance and rider safety.
RPF registered 9 cases and arrested 14 offenders, recovering stolen railway spot worthy ₹1,66,247 retired of a full stolen spot valued astatine ₹1,32,014, the merchandise said.
