Women pickpockets increase in Delhi Metro

Prateek Chauhan

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, December 29

The women pickpockets in the Delhi Metro have increased this year, as per the data of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). Women constitute over 91 per cent of pickpockets apprehended by the CISF in the Delhi Metro in Delhi-NCR and the number has increased four folds this year.

In 2018, 115 such programmes were run, in which 512 women thieves were nabbed, whereas, the number of male thieves is 27. In 2017, 162 such special programmes were conducted, in which 122 women and 89 men were nabbed.

Time-to-time special programmes are conducted by the CISF in view of the incidents of thefts and pick pocketing on Metro trains and railway stations. In order to check these crimes, CISF regularly undertakes special operations and deploys women and men personnel in plain clothes to keep an eye on trouble makers.

During special operations, the apprehended offenders are fined of Rs 200-500, given warnings to not repeat the crime and are let off. However, those pickpockets who are caught red-handed are handed over to the police.

“It has been found that the modus-operandi of these women is to either carry a child or travel in a group to con and pick a purse or other valuables of a traveller, be it a man or a woman,” said a senior CISF official adding that 224 Metro stations are managed by the CISF for safety and 11,000 CISF personnel are deployed on Metro Stations in Delhi-NCR.