Delhi on high alert: Intel agencies warn of terror attacks; security beefed up at BJP HQ

NEW DELHI: Delhi has been enactment connected precocious alert pursuing quality inputs indicating a imaginable panic threat, prompting Delhi Police and different information agencies to intensify surveillance crossed respective delicate locations. “Police person been directed to support strict vigil connected suspicious movements, unattended objects and vehicles parked successful delicate zones,” PTI quoted an authoritative arsenic saying. According to officials, information agencies person received alerts astir imaginable attempts to people salient offices and crowded areas successful cardinal Delhi done termination attacks, vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (IEDs), shootings, and coordinated strikes. Security has been tightened astir the office of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (DDU) Marg and adjacent authorities establishments, with further deployment of equipped personnel, barricading and enhanced conveyance checks. Anti-sabotage inspections are underway astatine cardinal authorities buildings, governmental offices, markets, transport hubs and different crowded locations crossed the city.

Bomb disposal squads, sniffer canine units and speedy absorption teams, on with the Delhi Fire Service, person besides been placed connected alert. Security measures person additionally been reinforced successful settlements and areas considered susceptible from a law-and-order perspective, portion section constabulary are carrying retired random checking drives and verification exercises. Senior officers are intimately monitoring the concern and reviewing information arrangements passim the city. At slightest 15 radical were killed and implicit 20 injured successful an detonation wrong a car adjacent the Red Fort connected November 10 past year. The incidental marked the archetypal panic onslaught successful the nationalist superior since 2011.