Delhi Metro: 91% pickpockets held by CISF are Women

December,29,2018:

26 lakh commuters use Delhi Metro every day and gangs of con Women prey on them each day.

CISF, Central Industrial Security Force, has disclosed that as per the trend witnessed over the past few years, over 91 per cent of pickpockets apprehended by the CISF in the Delhi Metro network in the national capital region are Women.

The CISF, which is tasked to provide security to Delhi Metro, reportedly apprehended a total of 479 pickpockets.

Out of this an overwhelming 438 were women.

The full-year, updated till the middle of December, states that the security force undertook a little over 100 operations to check pick pocketing in the rapid rail lifeline of Delhi and its adjoining areas, that carries an estimated 26 lakh commuters every day.

Data of the last one year overwhelming show that the number of women indulging in these crimes has shown a constant upward trend.

Central Industrial Security Force apprehended these women and handed them over to the Delhi Police for legal action under Criminal Law.

Lately, the CISF had unearthed a notorious gang of such pickpocket women who had robbed a US-based Indian lady of her jewels and valuables while she was travelling in the Delhi Metro along with her husband.

The modus operandi of these women is to either carry a child with them or travel in a group to befoul and pick a purse or other valuables of a Metro traveler, be it a man or a woman.

To check these crimes, CISF regularly undertakes special operations and deploys women and men personnel in plain-clothes to keep an eye on such trouble makers.