Date:16/06/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/06/16/stories/2008061655310900.htm

National

3-tier security for Amarnath Yatra

Jammu: A three-tier security arrangement with the deployment of more than 6,000 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel has been put in place for the Amarnath Yatra which begins on June 18.

“The security set-up has been activated in and around the cave shrine, base camps, halting and eating points and along the route of pilgrimage from Lakhanpur (Kathua) to Amarnath,” a highly placed officer told PTI on Sunday.

The security arrangement consists of area domination and setting up of mountain posts by the Army, stationary deployment of the CRPF and mobile patrolling by the armed police.

The Army has set up 97 area domination posts in and around the Cave Shrine in Lidder Valley of South Kashmir and Pahalgam and along the highway in Anantnag, Ramban and Udhampur districts besides erecting check points on the Jammu-Srinagar highway. —PTI