A three-person committee of the Federal Ministry of the Interior investigated the security breaches during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Punjab on January 5, and convened the state police chief S Chattopadhyaya and 13 other senior officials in Ferozepur on Friday.
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In addition to DGP Chattopadhyaya, the officers summoned were the Commissioner of Police (ADGP) G Nageshwar Rao, ADGP Jitendra Jain, the Commissioner of Police (IGP), Patiala, Mukhwinder Singh Chinna, Ferozepur Deputy Commissioner Inderbir Singh, Faridkot DIG Deputy Commissioner Surjeet Singh, Ferozepur Deputy Commissioner Davinder Singh, Ferozepur High Superintendent (SSP) Harmandeep Hans, Moga SSP Charanjit Singh Sohal, Kotkapura Duty Magistrate Varinder Singh, Ludhiana Joint Commissioner Ankur Mahendru, Bathinda Deputy Commissioner ASP Sandhu, Bathinda SSP Ajay Maluja VIP and Feroze Maluja VIP control the room principal.
The Chief Secretary of Punjab Province, Anirudh Tewari, stated in the communiqu: “Please meet the committee at the BSF campus in Ferozepur at 10 am on January 7th, and attach relevant information related to the above topics. Orders/documents/records.” The Federal Ministry of the Interior announced that it would investigate “serious errors” in the security arrangements, which put VVIP at “serious risks”.
The team is led by Sudhir Kumar Saxena, Secretary of the Cabinet Secretariat (Security). Its other members are Barbir Singh, the co-director of the Intelligence Agency, and IG S Suresh, a special protection group.
In what the center described as a “major security error”, Modi’s motorcade was stranded on the flyover for 20 minutes on Wednesday due to the blockade of protesters on the Ferozepur farm. He returned from the polled Punjab state and did not participate in any activities, including the BJP rally, which accused the Congress government of Punjab of violating security regulations.
However, Charanjit Singh Channi, Chief Minister of Punjab, claimed that Modi changed his travel plan at the last minute to cause this situation. On Thursday, the Shanny government also formed a committee of retired justice Mehtab Singh Gill and chief secretary Anurag Verma for the interior and justice to investigate. The committee was required to submit a report within three days.
Complete News Source : Hindustan Times
