Security Tightened, Picketing Intensified Ahead of I-Day
With hours to go before the nation celebrates the 64th Independence Day on Sunday, unprecedented security precautions are in place in several parts of the country, say reports.
Reports say security arrangements have been tightened and high alert has been sounded in various parts of the country even as a keen vigil is being maintained at crowded areas.
In the national capital, the Delhi metro parking will remain out of bounds for the public from 1400 hours on August 14 to 1400 hours on August 15.
An overall preparedness is being maintained by the Delhi police to combat any situation arising out of terror threat. Patrolling and picketing, especially on borders, have been intensified.
In the commercial capital Mumbai, massive police preparations are underway to tackle any situation. The DGP assured people that everyone is safe.
Security was stepped up to a high alert in Jammu and Kashmir and a keen vigil was being kept over the frontiers with Pakistan on the eve of Independence Day.
Police in every corner of Orissa are maintaining a high-level of preparedness with intensified patrolling even as state and central forces were deployed in vulnerable areas of Malkangiri, Gajapati, Rayagada, Kandhamal and Ganjam districts after Maoists asked people to observe the Independence Day as a black day.
In Guwahati, army, police and paramilitary troopers have been deployed in the restive north-eastern states to foil any plans by separatists to stage violent attacks ahead of Independence Day.
The states declared as vulnerable to rebel attacks are Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.
Closer home in Bhopal, picketing was intensified and a keen vigil was being kept, sale of platform tickets remain suspended as platforms were pushed out of bounds for everybody except those possessing journey tickets.
(Based on Media Reports)
