Woman reported sexual harassment in Delhi Metro, alleged no support from DMRC

New Delhi, India (Metro Rail Today): A woman from Delhi on May 2, 2022, reported that she faced sexual harassment on Delhi Metro premises at Jor Bagh Metro Station. "the incident was "horrifying" and left her "traumatised", she said. She explained the incident in detail in a series of tweets.

She explained how a fellow metro passenger on the pretext of asking her for directions, exposed himself to her on the station platform. "I don't expect this at a station like Jor Bagh in Central Delhi which is supposed to be one of the safest places. If something like this happens, it is really horrifying for me as I have not been able to think beyond this since yesterday," she said.

She alleged that the CISF officers present at the Jor Bagh metro station refused to take any action against the man. "It was so horrific that I didn't know how to react. If the CCTV footage is made public, it's very visible that I was stunned, scared and ran away as soon as possible that was my first instinct," she said.

"As soon as something like this happened, you don't know how to react because you didn't expect it. There were some officers. They tried to help and showed me CCTV footage but despite having the footage, they didn't do anything about it," she added.

"It's the incompetence or maybe officers are not trained enough as to how to deal with this situation despite the fact that how frequently the incidents happened, they try to normalise and justify that something like this happened all the time which is not really an excuse to accept," she alleged.

"The incident happened between 1.50 to 1.55 pm in the afternoon. Metro station was quite empty except for a couple of people at that point. This happened on the metro platform. The whole fact that I have been travelling in metro assuming it safest travel," she stated.

"We have taken cognizance of a tweet of a young girl who said she was sexually harassed at a metro station premises. Thereafter, the Delhi Police initiated the action. DCP Railways is looking into the matter and we'll arrest the accused soon," said Suman Nalwa, Public Relations Officer, Delhi Police.

The Delhi Police had inspected the CCTV footage and the accused was found to be travelling in another metro. "We are in touch with DMRC to establish coordination to immediately direct either the local police or metro police to initiate necessary action in such cases. Youngsters should not be reluctant to dial 112 while having such a traumatic experience," said Suman Nalwa.