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Union Railway Ministry Ashwini Vaishnaw said connected Wednesday that maintaining instrumentality and bid and preventing crimes against the passengers connected railway properties is vested with the State governments.
The Minister informed this successful reply to a question raised by K. Radhakrishnan, MP, successful the Parliament connected the expanding fig of incidents of unit against women passengers connected trains and railway premises successful Kerala, including the caller Varkala bid onslaught case.
‘Police’ and ‘public order’ are State subjects nether the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India and therefore, the State governments are liable for prevention, detection, registration, and probe of transgression and attraction of instrumentality and bid connected railways done their instrumentality enforcement agencies, viz., Government Railway Police (GRP)/State police, said the Minister. The Railway Protection Force (RPF) supplements the efforts of the GRP/ State constabulary to supply amended extortion and information to railway property, passengers and for matters connected with them, helium added.
The incident
On November 02, 2025, a pistillate passenger, portion travelling by sitting connected the footboard of a coach, was forcibly pushed retired of a moving bid adjacent the Varkala railway presumption by different rider seemingly nether the power of alcohol. The GRP, Thiruvananthapuram, had registered a lawsuit against the accused person, who was arrested. The incidental was further corroborated by the footage obtained from the CCTV fitted wrong the coach. Further ineligible enactment is being taken by the constabulary against the accused, said the Minister.
The information of women is accorded precocious precedence successful Indian Railways. A slew of measures are taken by the Railways successful coordination with the GRP for the information of women passengers connected trains and astatine railway stations successful Kerala, including the RPFescorting women passengers successful summation to GRP unit connected susceptible and identified routes/sections. Under the ‘Meri Saheli’ initiative, focussed attraction has been provided for the information and information of women passengers travelling unsocial connected long-distance trains for their full journey, i.e., from originating presumption to destination station. Further, surveillance is kept done CCTV cameras provided successful a fig of coaches and railway stations.
Campaigns are besides being conducted against the introduction of antheral passengers into the compartment reserved for women, and ineligible enactment is taken against the offenders, said the Minister.
