Bodh Gaya blast: High alert in UP

State government has sounded alert in UP, particularly around the Buddhist shrines in the state, after the serial blast that struck in Bodhgaya on Sunday morning. Additional Director General of Police (law and Order) Arun Kumar said the UP police had sent a team of Anti- Terrorist Squad (ATS) to Bodhgaya where it will assist theBihar Police in the ongoing probe and in tracing out the miscreants behind the serial blast case.

He said all the districts police chiefs had been alerted and they have been directed to intensify patrolling in the districts and make elaborate security at the important places in the areas where Buddhists shrines were located. The ADG law and Order said the police were taking special care of the Buddhist religious sites Saranath in  Varanasi, Kushinagar, Kapilvastu and Shravasti districts and the security in these districts had been spruced up also. He added that the government had also alerted the state police to keep a close vigil at other religious places in Ayodhya, Mathura and Allahabad and other districts of UP.

Meanwhile, the SSB intensified the patrolling on the 243 Kilometers long international border with Nepal in UP from security point of view in the state. SSB Officials said that SSB was conducting a checking drive at all the entry and exit points at Balrampur, Bahriach and Sharvasti districts and they were working in sync with the local police and local intelligence Unit (lIU) of these districts.It may be mentioned that five people were injured in eight explosions that struck Bodhgaya on Sunday morning. The blast made the state police apprehensive and the state government ordered to beef up the security.