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State issues alert in court premises

Pioneer News Service

State government issued an alert directing all the district administration to ensure adequate security arrangements in the court premises so that Allahabad incident could be not repeated. Issuing a circular in this regard here on Wednesday evening, principal secretary (home) Devasheesh Panda, claimed to have asked all district police chief to take all kind of preventing steps in the court premises so that any untoward incident could be averted. Panda said that particularly after the incident in Allahabad, the government directed to take all necessary steps so that such cases should not be repeated. He also claimed to have directed to ensure adequate force deployment in and around the courts to maintain law and order. 

Panda said that they also asked SSP Allahabad, to conduct a fair and speedy probe into the Wednesday’s incident in which one lawyer was also killed. Besides, the officials were also asked to take security measures in all the vital installations and sensitive places and stern action should be initiated against those spreading rumours.