Asad Owaisi Gets Z Security cover, say sources

Asad Owaisi Gets Z Security Cover, Say Sources | PM Modi Government has reviewed the security of AIMIM National Chief and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi and provided him with Z category security of CRPF with immediate effect, according to ANI quoting sources.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, Owaisi alleged that 3-4 assailants fired shots at his vehicle near the Chhajarsi toll plaza while he was heading to Delhi after campaigning in Kithaur, Meerut.

Asad Owaisi Gets Z Security Cover, Say Sources

The ‘Z category’ is a security detail of 22 personnel, including four to six NSG commandos and police personnel. It is provided by the Delhi Police or the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) or Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel along with one escort car.

As his car’s tyres got punctured due to the bullets, he had to leave the site in another vehicle.

According to him, the assailants ran away and left their weapons at the spot. Hours after the incident, CCTV footage which showed one attacker in a red hoodie running after Owaisi’s convoy, with his accomplice in a white hoodie firing a gun at the Chhajarsi toll plaza. So far, the police have arrested two accused – Sachin and Shubham, in connection with the case so far.

It is to mention here that Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM party initially joined the Om Prakash Rajbhar-led ‘Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha‘, it was left in the lurch after Rajbhar’s Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party forged a pre-poll alliance with SP. AIMIM has revealed its intention to contest 100 seats in UP. On January 22, AIMIM announced an alliance with Jan Adhikar Party and Bharat Mukti Morcha known as the ‘Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha’.

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