WOMEN UNSAFE ON TRAINS? WOMEN UNDER ATTACK ACROSS MUMBAI

Nov 2012, Tilak Nagar 

Starlet Neelam Singh gets into an auto driven by Anil Sharma outside Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) in Tilak Nagar. Sharma's friend Satish Singh also boards the auto. Neelam suspects they are taking a circuitous route and calls a friend for directions. At this, Satish Singh attacks her, Sharma also harasses her. Sharma and Satish Singh arrested the same day 
Nov 2012, Parel 
Mona Chaudhary, 20, is attacked with a blade by Prashant Hule, also 20, while on her way to Dr Shirodkar junior college at Parel. Hule, who inflicts deep cuts on Mona's face, says he did it at the behest of her friend Jayesh Patil, who had proposed marriage to her. Patil says he offered a contract to six people to attack her; all arrested 
Oct 2012, Andheri 
Preeti Margappa, 17, is on her way to a phone booth around 8.30pm when she objects to a pass made at her by Varish Qureshi, 22, near Juhu Galli in Andheri (West). Qureshi repeatedly slashes Margappa's face, causing deep cuts. Arrested 
Jan 2012, Goregaon 
Aarti Thakur, 22, is at Goregaon station, speaking to her fiance on the phone and about to punch her coupons, when a man flings acid at her and flees. She sustains severe injuries on her face, chest and arms. The police find out that the landlady of Thakur's house in Malwani hired the man to take revenge after a fight with her. Culprit and conspirators arrested 
Feb 2011, south Mumbai 
Anita Rane, head of the Ancient Indian Culture department at St Xavier's College, abused and attacked by an inebriated eunuch on a local train after she asks the person to vacate the ladies compartment. Rane protests on finding two eunuchs sprawled on the seats in the first-class compartment of a Borivli fast local at 8.21pm. She finds no cops on the train or Churchgate station. Eunuchs picked up 
ACTION TAKEN BY AUTHORITIES 
Women's cells at every GRP outpost, comprising female officers and constables, take complaints where women are victims. The idea is that women would find it comfortable to talk to female cops 
Two GRP night escorts deputed in 24-hour ladies compartments of every rake 
Increased prosecution by the RPF against men travelling in ladies coaches 
RPF's Mahila Vahini squads deployed in ladies compartments on CR 
RPF has formed two patrol teams on the Western line—between Churchgate to Bandra and Virar to Borivli