HYDERABAD: A high alert has been sounded in the State in the light of the Mumbai serial bomb blasts.

Security has been stepped up at all public places like railway stations, bus-stations, airports and some places of worship. Heavy contingents of police have been posted for protection of vital installations such as telephone exchanges, radio stations, major dams like Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar and power stations at Vijayawada and Kothagudem.

Vehicles are being checked at various points on several highways in the State, especially on the stretches between Hyderabad and Vijayawada, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada and Chennai.

The police at Tirumala Hills, the pilgrim centre accounting for a floating population of over 50,000 on any day, have been kept on toes and checking has been made a must at the queues at Vaikuntam, Kalyanakatta and other places. In the capital, security has been tightened at the Secretariat. At Madhapur vehicles and visitors are being subjected to checks. Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy reviewed the situation at the Secretariat along with Home Minister K. Jana Reddy and the top brass of the police. Speaking to reporters later, the Home Minister said a strict watch was being kept over the city and some preventive arrests had been made based on police records.

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