NEW DELHI: A legislation to make the Railway Protection Force (RPF) responsible for all railway related law and order issues, apart from passenger safety, will likely be tabled in March 2012 when the Budget will be discussed in Parliament.
The Bill is before the Cabinet for an approval.
The RPF Amendment Bill, 2011, which has been sitting for a while, will give it powers to register cases of crime and enforce law on railway premises and moving trains.
Until now the state government police is responsible in respective states for railway station related security issues.
However, they have their own boundary limitation which forbids them from filing cases of crime on a moving train that created the dilemma of jurisdiction.
This confusion could be avoided with the empowerment of the RPF to register such cases.
The legislation, in a first, will allow a paramilitary force to have the requisite policing powers in the country, eliminating the duplicity of authorities.
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