All nuclear installations in India are on terror alert following intelligence reports that terrorists might target them.
Atomic plants at Narora (Uttar Pradesh), Kaiga (Karnataka), Tarapur (Maharashtra), Kalpakkam (Tamil Nadu), Kakrapar (Gujarat) and Kota (Rajasthan) are covered by the new security alert besides several N-research and development centres like Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Trombay, a Mumbai suburb. BARC is said to have been put on maximum alert.
The new threat perception followed the arrest of a Pakistani at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport reportedly with ‘several defence-related and sensitive documents’, and the ‘disclosure’ that David Headley, who had planned terror attacks in India on behalf of Pakistan-based LeT, had visited Gujarat, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh — all with nuclear installations.
Headley, arrested by FBI last week, is facing grilling by American and Indian sleuths.
Terming the latest security drill as a precaution, the Minister for Science and Technology, Prithviraj Chauhan said here that all the Indian nuclear installations were absolutely secure. ‘There are multiple layers of security. No worry’
Indian sleuths are also trying to reconstruct the trail of David Headley and his accomplice Tahawwur Rana who are reported to have criss-crossed India during their visits, with Haedley even running a visa consultancy in Mumbai. They were in Mumbai days before 26/11 attack on Taj and Oberoi hotels both located near the Gate of Way of India.
Rana is a Pakistan-born Canadian citizen. He visited Mumbai accompanied by a woman Samraz Rana Akhtar, who like him has roots in Pakistan’s Punjab province. Both took multiple entry visas from the Indian consulate in Chicago in October last year. Their mission was look out for recruits for the Lashkar-e-Taiba.
-Asian Tribune -
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