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Officials discuss Naxal menace
A high-level confidential meeting of senior cops of various security agencies was organised in the conference hall of Police Lines here on Friday. The meet discussed measures to tackle the growing incidents of Naxal violence in the country including, neighbouring States like Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand and MP. Sources said that vital information on Naxal activities was shared by the participating senior officials of Police, Intelligence, Central Reserve Police Force and Inter-State Border Security Force.
a high-level confidential meeting of senior cops of various security agencies was organised in the conference hall of Police Lines here on Friday. The meet discussed measures to tackle the growing incidents of Naxal violence in the country including, neighbouring States like Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand and MP.
Sources said that vital information on Naxal activities was shared by the participating senior officials of Police, Intelligence, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), and Inter-State Border Security Force. The security arrangements of Naxalite-affected areas in Chandauli, Mirzapur and Sonebhadra was prime focus of discussion.
Following the growing incidents of Naxal menace in neighbouring states of Jharkhand, Bihar and Chhatisgarh recently, the meeting had been convened under the chairmanship of the Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence) Deoraj Nagar. The senior cops interacted with the DIGs and SP of affected areas in Varanasi and Mirzapur zone of police and gave them necessary tips to handle the menace effectively in the region. It is believed that some confidential strategy might have been chalked out by the officials to combat the Naxalite menace in the State in wake of its possible impact coming from neighbouring States.
The meeting was also followed by a seminar on ‘Naxalite Menace’ in the entertainment hall of police lines.
All the senior officials, concerned SP, circle officers, station officers of affected areas in Sonebhadra, Chandauli and Mirzapur attended the seminar.
Police Commissioner of Bangalore AK Singh was also in the meeting. He had inspected the site of twin bomb blasts on March 7 here in the city.
Prominent officials, who participated in the meeting and seminar, included, IG (CRPF) Karmjeet Singh, IG for Varanasi zone KL Meena, Vikram Saigal, Commandant of 74th Battalion of CRPF SN Sabat, DIG for Inter-State Border Police, DIG Mirzapur SK Mathur, DIG Varanasi RN Yadav, Joint Director for IB, Amitabh Ranjan and SPs of Varanasi Mirzapur and Sonebhadra.