U.P.: Elaborate security at Vidhan Bhawan for I-Day

Police officials said extensive security deployment had been made for law and order as well as traffic and intel duties

Elaborate security arrangements have been put in place at Vidhan Bhawan where chief minister Yogi Adityanath will hoist the national flag on the occasion of 75th Independence Day on Monday.

U.P. CM Yogi Adityanath will unfurl the national flag at Vidhan Bhawan in Lucknow on Monday. (HT photo)

Police officials said extensive security deployment had been made for law and order as well as traffic and intelligence collection duties in and around Vidhan Bhawan and some other parts of the city. In a press note shared by Lucknow police, the cops said 846 civil police personnel and four companies of Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) had been deployed for law and order duty.

They said those deployed included two superintendents of police (SPs), seven additional SPs (ASPs), 17 deputy SPs (DSPs), 29 inspectors, 192 sub-inspectors (S-Is), 18 women S-Is, 436 head constables and constables and 145 woman constables.

The press note further said 616 police officials and personnel had been deployed for regulating traffic on roads heading towards Vidhan Bhawan and Ashok Marg. They included one SP and ASP each, three DSPs, 12 traffic inspectors, 105 traffic S-Is, 315 traffic head constables and constables as well as 176 home guards.