Railway Police.

(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, create one or more special railway police districts with required number of Railway Police Sub-Divisions and railway police stations consisting of such railway lines and other railway areas in the State as it may notify, and appoint a Superintendent of Police, one or more Assistant and Deputy Superintendents of Police and such other police officers for policing such district in the manner as may be prescribed or may notify one or more police stations in each police district to police the railway lines and other railway establishments within their area. (2) The police stations as may be notified shall be responsible for prevention, detection and investigation of crime, enforcement of law and maintenance of order in trains passing through their area, in railway lines area and other railway area falling in their jurisdiction in the manner as may be prescribed.