SCR bid to curb hawkers menace

Hyderabad, August 30: The Railway Protection Force has gone on an over drive to put a check on the hawkers’ menace.

The drive, initiated by A N Sinha, senior divisional security commissioner RPF, fetched nearly Rs 2.8 lakh after 360 hawkers were rounded up this month. Seven of the offenders have been put in jail.

Meanwhile, around 50 eunuchs were arrested and three jailed for their indecent behavior.

Most of the operations were at Kazipet-Sirpur Kaghaznagar and Warangal-Vijayawada stations.

——Agencies