He was caught defecating in the general compartment. Police not sure whether he is the same man who dirties women’s bogies.The `serial pooper’ who has been throwing Central Railway schedules off track by crapping in the ladies’ compartments of suburban locals and smearing the poo all over, has been nabbed. He was caught in the act in the wee hours of Tuesday by a special squad of the Railway Protection Force.While he is certainly a pooper, and was caught 'red handed' from a general first class compartment between Mumbra and Diva stations, there is no certainty that he was entirely responsible for the mess in the ladies’compartments during the last few months (Mumbai Mirror report `Poop goes the Weasel’ on August 3). “The real worry is that there are several urchins, beggars, drug addicts and others who live in the empty trains that are parked in the yard and dirty them. We will soon actually know if this was just one man or there are others too who need to be caught,” said a Central Railway official.The special squad was dressed in civvies and was on the lookout for the culprit when he was spotted in a general first class compartment which was otherwise empty. The man’s hands were already dirty as he was preparing to smear his faeces all around.The special team to catch the offender was formed under the orders of Senior Divisional Security Commissioner Alok Bohra. It consisted of two male and two female constables under the charge of Sub Inspector Subhash Thakur. “Our squad was on the lookout for this person and we regularly travelled in the local trains to get him,”said Sub Inspector Thakur.When the offender was caught, he attempted to flee but was held back and taken to Karjat Chowky, said the policemen. “He told us in Marathi that he belonged to Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh and that his father was a former railway employee and he was currently living at Baithi Chawl in Mumbra. His family does not want him at home, so he just roams around, and sleeps on trains,” said Dilip Dhole, RPF constable who was part of the squad.In fact the accused told RPF staff that his health was suffering and that he was eating whatever he could from his earnings from begging. As a result he always had an upset stomach and was forced to crap in the local trains. “It clearly seemed that he was a drug addict and mentally unstable. As to why he smeared the poop all over he gave us very vague answers. But he agreed to having committed the offence several times,” said one of the RPF men. The culprit was booked for causing nuisance on railway premises, for affecting the normal functioning of railway services, and other offences. He was produced at the Kalyan court where he was remanded to 25 days’ custody as he could not pay the fine.A CR official said they hoped the nuisance has ended with the accused being caught, as the crap problem had severely affected train schedules for almost four months now. There were days when over 20 trains were running 30 minutes late during peak hour, he said.