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Security beefed up at Baglihar after threats by militants |
2005-05-04 |
![]() The DIG said that besides throwing a security blanket around the project, all the six foreigners working at the Rs 70 billion project had been provided special security, he said. "Each foreigner has been given a personal security officer and security pickets have also been set up in the residential area of these engineers," he said. About a fortnight back the Union Power Ministry had also told the state government that it had received a note from the Prime Minister's Office that militant organisation Hizbul Mujahideen was planning a suicide attack on the project. Gupta said plainclothes security personnel had been deployed to monitor suspicious people. |
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