Home ministry tells VIPs to alert cops about foreign travel

September 23, 2014 18:19

The home ministry has asked all VIPs with personal security officers to inform police forces concerned when they travel abroad for better coordination with foreign agencies.

In a communication, the home ministry told all state police forces to ensure that whenever any VIP travels abroad, he or she must inform the agency which gives police protection as that would enable smooth coordination with security agencies abroad and ensure proper protection.

The first order in this regard was sent last year after the conviction of three Sikh extremists, including a woman, in the United Kingdom for carrying out an attack on Lt Gen (retd) Kuldip Singh Brar on September 30, 2012, a home ministry official said.

Following a recent home ministry directive, the Delhi police on September 12 sent identical letters to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, former prime minister Manmohan Singh's two sons-in-law, Vijay Tankha and Ashok Patnaik, and former prime minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee's son-in-law Ranjan Bhattacharya asking them to inform the Delhi police whenever they travel abroad.

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