FIRs on sexual assault can be filed in running trains

Coimbatore | Wednesday | 10th October, 2018

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Women passengers who face sexual harassment on trains don’t have to step out of trains to lodge a complaint any more. The government railway police, Tamil Nadu, will register cases based on the complaints and would transfer the FIRs to the respective states, he added. M Jameel Ahamed, chairman, Coimbatore District Railway and Airways Passengers Association told TOI that GRP, Tamil Nadu has introduced the system three months ago and railway police in Gujarat and Rajasthan followed the Tamil Nadu pattern now. “She can register a complaint with the train ticket examiner or railway police personnel who are on duty in the train. Most of the assaults happen between 12am and 2am while they were sleeping..