PIL filed for deployment of women force in trains

A PIL was today filed in the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court seeking direction for deployment of women commandos in trains and an inquiry by an independent agency against an IAS officer,who was arrested on charges of alleged attempt to rape in a moving train.

A PIL was today filed in the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court seeking direction for deployment of women commandos in trains and an inquiry by an independent agency against an IAS officer,who was arrested on charges of alleged attempt to rape in a moving train.

Citing incidents of misbehaviour with women passengers in moving trains,the petitioner,a local lawyer,Moti Lal Yadav,in his PIL has requested the court to issue direction to Chairman Railway Board to appoint Railway Women Commando Force in every running train.

Yadav has requested the court to issue directive to the state government to appoint ladies force as per the ratio of the population of the women.

He claimed that the Railway Board had in past decided to deploy women commando force,but nothing has been done yet.

The petitioner has also sought the direction to UP government for a detailed inquiry against IAS officer Shahsi Bhushan Sushil by an independent agency. Shushil,who was special secretary in the Technical Education Department,was arrested on Monday last for allegedly molesting a woman in Lucknow Mail.

A local court granted him interim bail on Wednesday.

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