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Security measures stepped up in Gyanwapi
IN VIEW of terrorist attacks on religious places and to ensure security of the sensitive Kanshi Vishwanath Temple and Gyanwapi mosque, several measures have been taken for protection of this historic place.
IN VIEW of terrorist attacks on religious places and to ensure security of the sensitive Kanshi Vishwanath Temple and Gyanwapi mosque, several measures have been taken for protection of this historic place.
Moving in this direction, the government not only approved the police recommended Rs 13 crore project but also started working on it.
Sources said the government was now in the process of implementing the Rs 13 crore project which included deployment of commandos besides more forces, setting up of more 20 close circuit cameras, automatic channel gates like high speed gates and inter-locking gates.
The sources also added 30 commandos had already arrived in Varanasi on Friday who were straightway driven to this sensitive complex on the same day. “Yes, 30 commandos trained by the military, BSF, army have reached here and have been deployed in this sensitive complex,” Additional Superintendent of Police, Gyanwapi complex JK Tiwari told Hindustan Times on Saturday.
Tiwari also added said 20 more CCTvs were in the process of being installed at different locations in the complex.
Besides, he said one more company of the PAC had also been sanctioned.
He added the PAC company was liley to reach Varanasi city any time now.
Ten CCTvs were already in place in the Gyanwapi complex. Tiwari said the Rs 13 crore project for enhancement of security at the Vishwanath temple and Gyanwapi area was recommended by the police after terror attack at Ayodhya on July 5, 2005.
The ASP also informed it was due to the tightest security in the area that prevented terrorists and anti-national elements to strike as witnessed in Sankat Mochan Temple on March 7, 2006.
