{"id":598665,"date":"2023-08-21T10:19:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T04:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=598665"},"modified":"2023-08-21T11:16:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T05:46:09","slug":"not-everyone-comfortable-with-armed-guards-on-trains-after-july-31-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/not-everyone-comfortable-with-armed-guards-on-trains-after-july-31-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Not everyone comfortable with armed guards on trains after July 31 shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Passengers gave mixed reactions about safety vis-a-vis the presence of armed escorts in both long-distance and local trains in the wake of July 31 incident on the Jaipur-Mumbai Superfast Express where a Railway Protection Force constable gunned down four people. <\/p>\n<p>While some said that the presence of a cop was comforting and an isolated incident did not impact their trust in security forces, others pointed out that their faith had been shaken and a mental health check-up was a must for personnel using arms. Government Railway Police (GRP) and home guards escort women\u2019s coaches of local trains between 9 pm and 6 am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Passengers gave mixed reactions about safety vis-a-vis the presence of armed escorts in both long-distance and local trains in the wake of July 31 incident on the Jaipur-Mumbai Superfast Express where a Railway Protection Force constable gunned down four people. While some said that the presence of a cop was comforting and an isolated incident did not impact their trust in security forces, others pointed out that their faith had been shaken and a mental health check-up was a must for personnel using arms. Government Railway Police (GRP) and home guards escort women\u2019s coaches of local trains between 9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}