Terror attack in Punjab: Security scaled up across Maharashtra

Security at all sensitive places in Mumbai, Nagpur and Pune is also being scaled up in the wake of the fresh alert.

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A police checkpost at Kalbadevi in Mumbai on Monday. Security has been tightened in the city and other parts of the state. (Kevin DSouza)

High alert has been sounded in Maharashtra after the terror strike in Gurdaspur district of Punjab on Monday morning. In the wake of intelligence inputs from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis held a review meeting with top police officers to assess the situation and make necessary deployments.

The state home department said there was a special emphasis on stepping up security in Mumbai, Pune, Nashik and Nagpur.

The terror attack, coupled with the Supreme Court’s awaited directive on 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon’s plea against death penalty, has the intelligence agencies urging the state home ministry to scale up security.

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Minister of State for Home Ram Shinde said, “Intelligence agencies have sounded a high alert in the state. Additional deployment of security forces has been made in Nashik where Kumbh Mela is under way.

That apart, security at all sensitive places in Mumbai, Nagpur and Pune is also being scaled up in the wake of the fresh alert.

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