'Why Central forces?'

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, DEC. 3. The Defence Minister, Mr. George Fernandes, today almost disapproved of the decision of his own Government to send Border Security Force personnel and National Security Guard commandos to nab forest brigand, Veerappan.

Within a day of the police top brass of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka discussing the conduct of joint operations against Veerappan based on the assurance of the Union Government that it would provide 1,000 BSF personnel and the NSG at a later stage, Mr. Fernandes said utilising Central forces to assist the Special Task Force did not make sense; it was the job of police to nab Veerappan.

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