In an incident highlighting lapse of the CISF inside the Delhi Metro, body of a 30-year-old woman was found hanging from the water pipe of a store room on platform number 2 of the Kashmere Gate Metro station on Thursday morning.
Everyday, the CISF carries out a sweeping operation at each and every Metro station at the time when the Metro stations are supposed to shut down. This sweeping operation is carried out to ensure that no person or object is left behind in the Metro station premises. A senior officer said, “The sweeping operation which takes place every-day at 12.30 am did not take place at the Kashmere Gate Metro station on Wednesday night. therefore, the incident of suicide came to light on Thursday morning. In the absence of the sweeping procedure from taking place at the Kashmere Gate Metro station, the woman was last seen in the CCTV grab of the camera at 10.30pm. After that time, what transpired inside the equipment room which is under the escalors and near to the emergency exit of the Metro station was missed out.”
The incident came to light on Thursday morning at around 8.30 am when a staffer of the DMRC spotted a woman hanging from the water pipe of the equipment room, which is close to platform number 2.
Jitendra Mani, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Metro) said, "We received a PCR call at around 8.20am. A sweeping staffer of the DMRC noticed a woman aged around 28-year-old was found hanging. Following which, we shifted her body to the mortuary of a near hospital."
According to the police, body of the unidentified woman was found by the DMRC staffer at around 8.20 am after which he alerted the CISF and the local police. Police said that they are scanning the CCTV footage and the movement of the woman entering the metro station. So far, police said that they have not been able to recover any identity card documents related to the woman. No suicide note has been recovered from the possession of the deceased.
A woman allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself at a Delhi Metro station here.
Officials said the incident was reported at about 8.30 am when a staffer of the cleaning department at the Kashmere Gate Metro station informed authorities of a woman hanging near the water supply pipe at the end of platform no 2.
They said the unidentified woman, aged about 28 years, had allegedly hanged herself using her 'dupatta'.
Metro and CISF officials soon reached the spot and an investigation is on as to how and when the woman attempted the alleged suicide.
The police are scanning the CCTV recording of the station, they said.