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CISF officials rush to Kalpakkam

Staff Reporter

KANCHEEPURAM: Senior officials of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), New Delhi, have rushed to Kalpakkam, near Chennai, to tighten the security cordon at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR). This follows an intelligence report that IGCAR is also on the hit-list of international terrorist organisations.

The IGCAR has already been provided with a two-tier security system with 24-hour watchtower facility at strategic points. However, in view of the recent bomb explosions in Mumbai carried out reportedly with the support of international terrorist organisations, the Central intelligence agencies have urged the CISF to beef up the security system at IGCAR and other important places.

Subsequently, CISF officials alerted the Kancheepuram police on August 9 to keep a strict vigil on the outer periphery of the IGCAR complex. An urgent meeting of senior CISF officials from New Delhi and police officials was held at the IGCAR complex on Thursday to review the internal security system and also to discuss the security measures to be put in place by the local police around the complex.

Though police sources termed the CISF officials' visit to Kalpakkam as a regular security measure revision exercise, they did not rule out the possibility of IGCAR figuring on the hit-list of terrorists.

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