Citing incidents of misbehaviour with women passengers in moving trains, the petitioner, a local lawyer Moti Lal Yadav, in his PIL has requested the court to issue direction to Chairman Railway Board to appoint Railway Women Commando Force in every running train.
Yadav has requested the court to issue directive to the state government to appoint ladies force as per the ratio of the population of the women.
He claimed that the Railway Board had in past decided to deploy women commando force, but nothing has been done yet.
The petitioner has also sought the direction to Uttar Pradesh government for a detailed inquiry against the IAS officer Shahsi Bhushan Sushil by an independent agency like CBI.
Shushil, who was Special Secretary in the Technical Education Department, was arrested on Monday last for allegedly molesting a woman in Lucknow Mail.
He was granted an interim bail by a local court here yesterday.
The PIL is likely to come up for hearing on October 8.
