UP govt to ensure top security for Asian TT championship

Lucknow, Nov 5 : Keeping in view the terrorist threat, Uttar Pradesh government has made elaborate security arrangments with deployment of commando forces at all the strategic points for the 19th Asian Table Tennis Championship comences here from November 16.

Over 500 players and officials from 23 countries The seluths of the Special task Force(STF) and the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) would also be an additional support to the security cover for the players and foreign delegates.

''There would be elaborate security in place to prevent any untoward incidents at the hotels and the championship venue'', state additional director general of police ( law and order) A K Jain told UNI here today.

He said that no one would be allowed to go near the foreign players or the delegates at their hotels or the championship venue.

''Proper security would also be in place on the roads on which the players would travel between their hotels to the venue'', he further added.

The ADG ,however, refused to divulge any details about the numbers of the security forces to be engaged in the drill.

In August last England pulled out of the Badminton world championships in Hyderabad amid concerns about the team's security.

Badminton England had said that the decision was taken after their concerns about the English team potentially being a target of attack in the event of a terrorist act.

Meanwhile the Championship organising committee chairman Prabhat Chaturvedi also said that there would be no compromise with the security during the tourney.

--UNI

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