Black Cat commandos to protect Lalu Prasad

Apart from Prasad, leaders like LK Advani, MS Bitta and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa enjoy the security cover of 'Black Cats'.

Railway Minister and RJD Chief Lalu Prasad was on Monday given the cover of elite 'Black Cat' commandos of National Security Guards keeping in view heightened threat perception to him.

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The decision was taken at a meeting of senior Home Ministry officials, official sources said in New Delhi.

The sources said the Railway Minister had been already put in the Z-Plus category of security cover.

Apart from Prasad, leaders like LK Advani, MS Bitta and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa enjoy the security cover of 'Black Cats'.

Prasad, who is also the former Chief Minister of Bihar, is likely to get a permission to drive up to the tarmac of the Patna airport as a proposal to this effect had been sent to the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security.