Summary:
A two-year-old girl was injured after her hand came in the door of an under-repair token vending machine (TVM) at Uttam Nagar East Metro station. “The incident took place at 4.30 pm when the maintenance official shut the gate of the machine and the child’s hand came in between. DMRC advises general public not to leave their kids alone at Metro stations or trains to avoid any untoward incident. AdvertisingAn FIR under IPC sections 287 (negligent conduct with respect to machinery) and 337 (causing hurt) has been registered against the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) at Janakpuri Metro police station. In the FIR, he claimed that “there were no barricades, no board of repair and no security guard around the machine when it was opened for repair”..