Coimbatore-Under police controll today
Police officials are trying to ensure that normal life is not disrupted in anyway, by providing adequate protection in all public places, as the Special Court for Bomb Blasts cases commences pronouncement of judgement in the serial blasts on Wednesday.Amid fears of retaliatory terror strikes after the judgement, elders have advised family members not to venture out of their homes on Wednesday.Additional forces from neighbouring districts like Salem, Erode, Namakkal, Nilgiris, Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri have been pressed into service in addition to the city and rural police here.City Police Commissioner CK Gandhi Rajan said the police had taken control of all vulnerable points and there was nothing for public to worry about. All additional efforts would be taken to see that communal harmony is not affected in anyway.The Commissioner said it is going to be just ‘another day’ as the case itself was nearly a decade old. People can feel safe, he said.‘‘There is police bandobust at all places like schools, markets, temples, mosques, bus stands, railway stations, departmental stores, theatres, parking stands, shopping malls and other places,’’ an official said.A special team has also been formed under an assistant commissioner to keep track of the movement of the people coming to hotels, restaurants and lodges.According to the Superintendent of Police (SP), Karthikeyan, about 1,300 police have been pressed into action and all things were taken care of.
Police would be regularly checking the railway tracks too.As many as 53 checkposts and 150 pickets were set up in the district to monitor the possible infiltration of any anti-social elements. Striking forces have been deployed at 11 places identified in the district as communally sensitive.People are adviced not to pick up any articles found abandoned in a suspicious way.
