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Anti-sabotage squads deployed in Davangere

DAVANGERE: In the wake of the bomb blasts in Bangalore on Friday, anti-sabotage squads have been deployed in the railway station, bus stand, market and other places in Davangere.

The Inspector General of Police (Eastern Range), H.N. Satyanarayana Rao, told presspersons here on Saturday that squads had carried out an intensive search in these places. The squads would check the route through which Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa would come to Davangere from Shikaripur on Sunday.

Mr. Satyanarayana Rao said that red alert had been sounded in the eastern range, comprising Davangere, Shimoga, Bellary and Chitradurga, and the police had launched a drive to check lodges, hotels and resorts in Davangere and Honnali, where two suspected terrorists were caught some months ago. The police were monitoring the shops that sold gelatine sticks in the city. Circle inspectors would inspect such shops once in a quarter, he said. Vehicles on Bangalore-Pune national highway were being checked. Vehicles plying between Hiriyur and Harihar were also being checked, he said.

Referring to the damage caused to some idols at the world famous Hampi in Bellary district, he said that he had held talks with officials of Archaeological Survey of India and asked them to post men at the site to protect the monuments. The police would also monitor the monuments.

On the crime rate in the range, he said chain-snatching cases were on the rise in Shimoga. Though the police had arrested a gang and solved many chain-snatching cases there, such incidents continued to occur in Shimoga. He had given specific instructions to curb chain-snatching incidents in Shimoga, he added.

The Superintendent of Police of Davangere district, Sandip Patil, spoke.

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