From loosies to sprained legs, and from childhood surgeries to mental imbalance, RPF personnel have heard it all when it comes to creative reasons by passengers who travel illegally in compartments reserved for the specially abled. Despite a constant crackdown on them, there has been a steep rise in the number of unauthorised passengers travelling in this compartment.

The RPF has fined 49,046 passengers travelling in the Divyangjan compartment in the past three years, on Central Railway. The compartment is reserved for specially-abled people and women in advanced stage of pregnancy.