Daijiworld Media Network - Mumbai (SR)
Mumbai, Aug 28: According to data obtained through the Right to Information (RTI) Act, it was revealed that 113 people have sustained injuries in 118 incidents of stone-pelting on the Mumbai suburban railway network in the last six-and-half-years.
As per ANI, Shakeel Ahmad Sheikh, the man who filed the RTI, said, most of the stone-pelting incidents took place on Central Railway between 2013 to June 2019. "Stone-pelting incidents have been on the rise in the last few months. I had asked the railway police to provide me with the statistics of such incidents and how many people have been arrested and how many cases the police managed to detect," he told ANI on Monday.
Shakeel said, "The data itself is so shocking. Between 2013 to June 2019, 118 incidents took place and 113 commuters were injured. The Government Railway Police (GRP) has managed to detect only 21 cases''.
On Central Railway, 84 stone-pelting incidents were reported and 81 people were injured. The GRP could solve 15 cases and 13 suspects have been arrested till now, the RTI data revealed.
The Bombay high court, in 2005, had passed an order directing railway authorities to put up safety boundaries on both sides of the tracks to stone pelting incidents. However, the railways are yet to begin the work.