Sexual harassment tweet by girl in Metro: DCW notice to cops

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Friday issued summons to Delhi Police in the matter of sexual harassment with a girl in Delhi Metro. The Commission took suomoto cognizance of the matter after a post was put up by the girl on Twitter, wherein she stated that a man tried to sexually harass her at the Jor Bagh Station.

The girl said that on June 2 at around 2 pm, she was travelling on the yellow line of the metro when a stranger approached her and sought her help with locating an address. After helping him, she got off the train and sat on a platform trying to book her cab.

Again, the accused approached her and asked for further clarification regarding the address. This time when she tried to help him, the accused tried to touch her inappropriately. The girl ran away from there and approached a police personnel present on the platform. The girl alleged that the personnel refused to help her and asked her to go ‘upstairs’, the Commission said in a statement.

The girl had alleged that when she asked the police personnel to take action in the matter, they blamed her for not creating a ‘scene’ then and there and there is not much they could do as he had left!

The Commission issued a notice to the police on June 3 seeking an action taken report in the matter.

The Commission has been informed by police that an FIR has been registered in the matter. However, the status of the arrest of the accused is yet to be provided to the commission.

Further, the Delhi Police was asked to provide details of the action taken against the police personnels for allegedly not helping the girl. The police informed that the security personnels deployed in Delhi Metro belong to CISF.

DCW chief has issued notice to CISF seeking details of alleged action by the security personnels. The Commission has also asked CISF to provide details of procedure followed by CISF in case of incident of sexual harassment with women and children travelling in the metro.