The Delhi Police have put in place unprecedented security measures across the capital for the coming festival season this week, according to the Indo-Asian News Service Monday.
Diwali, or the festival of lights, a major hindu festival this year will be celebrated Friday.
"It is a festival season and people throng temples and markets in large numbers. So we have tightened security in all 10 districts in the capital," IANs quoted Delhi Police spokesman Rajan Bhagat as saying.
Bhagat said they have deployed extra police control room (PCR) vans, spotters, shooters, close circuit television cameras (CCTV) and metal detectors in all busy and crowded market places.
He said around 6,000 additional paramilitary and Delhi Police forces have been deployed at strategic locations in the capital, adding that bomb disposal and dogs squads were also on alert.
In 2005, triple blasts happened in Delhi on Diwali eve, killing over 60 people.
Source: Xinhua
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