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Saturday, Sep 09, 2006

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Capital put on high security alert

Staff Reporter

FULL ALERT: Security checks under way in the Jama Masjid area of Delhi on Friday evening. - PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA

NEW DELHI: A high alert has been sounded here in the Capital in the wake of the explosions that left many dead and injured at Malegaon in Maharashtra on Friday.

Additional Commissioner of Police Deependra Pathak said the entire force had been put on high alert and patrolling had been intensified around all the vital installations across the city. More security personnel have been deployed at major places of worship like the historic Jama Masjid, Akshardham Temple, Hanuman Mandir, Jhandewalan Temple and Birla Mandir.

Senior police officers held a series of meetings with community leaders in the evening to ensure normality and calm.

Plainclothesmen have been deployed in sensitive areas of the city to keep a watch on suspicious elements. Sleuths of the Special Cell of the Delhi police were following leads provided by intelligence agencies about movements of suspected elements.

Earlier in April this year, 14 people were injured in two crude bomb explosions inside the Jama Masjid here. No one has been arrested in that case so far. The police suspected that the blasts were the handiwork of elements out to inflame communal passions.

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