NSG pulls out 900 commandos from VIP security for anti-terror ops

October 15, 2012 17:39

For the first time in two decades, the elite National Security Guard (NSG) has pulled out its commandos -- numbering around 900--from guarding high risk VIPs, scaling down its security duties.

The NSG, according to sources, is now guarding the least number of protectees -- 15 VVIPs/VIPs--after a long time following the de-induction of a large number of commandos and redeploying them for operations for which they were meant for.

The commando force has shifted around 900 of its commandos rendering VIP security duties for training in specialist counter-terror operations as part of its original charter, an official said today.

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