Public feels unsafe at Trisulam station
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Twenty-six-year-old Ms Karuna Patnavi (name changed), an airport staffer residing at Perungulathur, got the shock of her life on Thursday evening at the Trisulam Railway Station when a complete stranger sat down next to her on the platform bench and put her head on her lap. There was no power at the station at the time.
When asked by other commuters about his behaviour, the man said roughly, “I live in this area. I just lay on a woman’s lap.
Who are you to question me?” When a scribe present at the scene rung up GRPF personnel at the Tambaram station, he was asked to advise Ms Karuna to call the women’s helpline.
Not a single policeman arrived at the scene till the woman boarded her EMU. The stranger meanwhile remained seated on the pitch-black platform.
Wednesday’s was not a stray incident. Women passengers in particular complain of frequent encounters with such mischief mongers and anti-social elements at the station that witnesses frequent power cuts. The electric lines in the station are allegedly over two decades old.
Interestingly, this is the station touted by the Railways as being a future “transit point” that would make journeying easy for southbound air passengers.
“The station is always gloomy. It is scary to walk along the long subway connecting the airport and the station. Few women have experienced far worse and embarrassing moments,” said Ms Charulatha Hariharan, employee of a private airline and a regular traveller.
Casual workers at the airport who travel by EMU daily said that it was common to see men drink on the station’s platform regularly after dusk.
It is high time both Railways and GRPF took action by enhancing security and illuminating the station better, said commuters.
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