13,000 cops to be deployed at Bengal’s Gangasagar Mela in apprehension of terror threat
The Statesman | 31 December 2024
A total of 13,000 policemen will be deputed at Sagar Islands in West Bengal’s coastal South 24 Parganas district on the occasion of the forthcoming annual Gangasagar Mela to be organised there next month, officials said on Monday.
A senior official of the state police said that generally security measures are beefed up during the Gangasagar Mela days every year. “However, this time some extra precautions are being adopted in wake of alerts that illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators might try to create trouble during the occasion amid the political crisis in the neighbouring nation,” he added.