Nation is celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr today, culminating a month of fasting. In the backdrop of last month`s serial bomb blasts in Mumbai, which left 25 people dead, security has been stepped up in the city for Eid-ul-Fitr and Ganesh Chaturthi festivals.
Apart from the 43,000-strong Mumbai Police, additional forces such as 10 teams of State Reserve Police Force, three squads of Rapid Action Force and policemen from different parts of Maharashtra have been roped in to boost security and surveillance during the widely celebrated ten-day Ganesh fest and Eid.
Special security arrangements have been made for one of the oldest and the city`s most famous Ganesh idols, Lalbaugcha Raja, where three Deputy Commissioners of Police and over 1,000 police personnel will be on duty. A separate control room has been set up at the venue, said a senior police official.
Leave of all police personnel has been cancelled till the festival, which begins on September 1, is over, Patnaik added. In the backdrop of the July 13 serial blasts in which 25 people were killed, surveillance across the metropolis has been stepped up considerably. A general alert has also been sounded, said another police official.
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