Bengaluru: Metro services on Purple Line in Bengaluru were briefly disrupted on Tuesday after a 21-year-old man pressed the Emergency Trip System (ETS) at MG Road station. The individual, identified as Hemanth Kumar from Viveknagar, was fined Rs 5,000 for the incident.

Kumar pressed the emergency button for fun, which caused a train arriving from Trinity station to halt at MG Road metro station for approximately 10 minutes, as reported by Times of India.

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The metro security staff found through the CCTV footage that the prankster boarded the train once it resumed and got down at the Cubbon Park station where they caught hold of him and enquired about the incident.

An official from Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) told the publication that the mischievous act by the passenger caused significant inconvenience to several commuters. "As per rules, a penalty of Rs 5,000 was imposed. He did not have money. His parents were informed about the incident. After some time, they reached the station and paid the amount," the source added.

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Bengaluru, Sept 17: MP Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar has suggested that to bring down the exorbitant cost barricading – estimated to cost around Rs 1.3 to Rs 1.5 crore per kilometre – railway lines could be used to construct fences on Tuesday.

Wadiyar took to X to share the letter he had sent to Union Environment Forest & Climate Change Minister Bhupendra Yadav.

Stating that “railway (lines) barricading” is proving to be an effective way to restrict the movement of elephants, he suggested that this should be taken up on a large scale.

“Upon consultation with the relevant authorities, it has come to my understanding that the cost of barricading per kilometre comes to Rs 1.3 crore to Rs 1.5 crore. Given that the border of the forests in my constituency stretches to over 400 km, with around 280 km of forest border requiring immediate barricading, the cost of such an exercise will reach Rs 350 crore to Rs 400 crore,” he wrote in his letter.

He said the environment ministry could make a direct request with the railway ministry for an allocation of railway lines, thus reducing the cost of the project to just that of labour cost.

“The benefits of this initiative are manifold, from reduction of human casualties, protection of property and livelihood, to conservation of elephants and, most importantly, promoting human-elephant coexistence, which is the need of the hour,” he added.

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