Roundup: Security Beefed up in Kashmir Ahead of Vajpayee's Visit

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Roundup: Security Beefed up in Kashmir Ahead of Vajpayee's Visit

Security has been beefed up twodays ahead of Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to Kashmir valley as police and paramilitary forces are sanitizing the venues of his visit.

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Security has been beefed up twodays ahead of Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to Kashmir valley as police and paramilitary forces are sanitizing the venues of his visit.

Security forces have been asked to be extra vigilant and the venues Vajpayee likely to visit are being sanitized, police said Wednesday.

Random checking of vehicles, frisking of pedestrians and house searches are being carried out to look out for any trouble creators, according to the Press Trust of India.

The security forces are concentrating within two-kilometer radius of the venues which Vajpayee will visit.

Night patrolling has been intensified and roads leading to the cricket park have been sealed..

The prime minister, who is arriving Friday in Srinagar, capitalof India-controlled Jammu and Kashmir, will attend the convocation of Kashmir University and inaugurate the first railway station in the valley at Qazigund in South Kashmir's Anantnag district.

He is also scheduled to address a public gathering at Sher-i-Kashmir cricket stadium in Srinagar besides holding a press conference.

This will be the first time in 15 years for a prime minister to address a public meeting in Srinagar.

Though security arrangements will be tight, conscious efforts are being made not to create any inconvenience to common people, police said.

Meanwhile, security forces have detained at least 30 suspects from different parts of the city Wednesday as stringent security measures were put in place.

The suspects were picked up for questioning from areas located close to Sher-i-Kashmir cricket park, the venue of prime minister's public meeting, at Sonawar in the heart of Srinagar during an operation launched to foil attempts of militants to disrupt the function, police said.

Though there were no intelligence reports of possible attacks, all the former militants who were released have been asked to report at nearest police stations or security forces' camps.

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