160 Companies Of Central Forces For Election Bandobast In Telangana

Hyderabad, April 22 (Maxim News)  150-160 Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) troops will be deployed in the state of Telangana for the Lok Sabha elections bandobast, in addition to this 60 thousand local police.

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 Assam Rifles (AR), Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) each consist of 70.  There will be up to 80 field staff.  Police sources said that around 60 companies of courses from the Center have already reached the state. These have already been sent to police units across the state.  They perform inspection duties at unit-wise internal check posts as well as border check posts.  

The state government has written a letter to the Center to send another 100 companies.  After the completion of polling in the states where the second and third phases of elections are going on, the police department officials said that the forces will come to Telangana in the first week of May. They are likely to be deployed more in Moist-affected areas.  Although the influence of Maoists in the state is not much as compared to the past, in recent times there has been an increase in encounters with the Maoists in the Telangana -Chhattisgarh border.

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Suspecting that there may be scope for Maoist unrest in this background, surveillance has been increased at the borders.  The local police are engaged in security and checking of vehicles.  Especially in the borders of Bhadradri Kothagudem, Mulugu, and Bhupalapalli districts, the combing of greyhounds is going on.  Senior officials said that most of the central forces will be deployed in the troubled areas in the first week of May. (Maxim News) 

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