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ITBP to guard Ajmal

Mumbai: Personnel of the elite Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) will guard the arrested terrorist Mohammad Ajmal Amir ‘Kasab’ in the high-security Arthur Road jail round-the-clock, a senior Crime Branch official said here on Tuesday.

“The ITBP personnel will take charge of guarding Kasab very soon. The Mumbai police have sent a requisition to the State government which forwarded it to the Central government. The Central government has accepted it,” Joint Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria said. -- PTI

Ajmal Amir is the lone terrorist arrested after the attack on Mumbai on November 26 last.

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