After the Railways' helpline and Twitter handle were flooded with sexual harassment complaints from women and handicapped commuters, RPF, Home Guard and NCC cadets will now man compartments during peak hours, a report in this paper said.

The action will be taken as the Railways is alarmed by the spike in sexual harassment cases, particularly on 87 local trains from the Central and Harbour lines, The modus operandi of perverts is to lie in wait outside the ladies' and disabled compartments. Then, they take advantage of the peak hour crowd to harass women. The women who are struggling to get on the train, and hemmed in by the crowd on all sides often have no way of fighting back.