In wake of protests by the Shiv Sena, the Mumbai police is taking no chance to ensure that the book launch of former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri in Mumbai passes off peacefully, reports Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com.

To prevent any untoward incident in the backdrop of Shiv Sainik's blackening the face of the organiser Sudheendra Kulkarni this morning, the state administration has put into action 300 police, state reserve police force, Mumbai riot control police outside Nehru Centre in Worli, the venue of the event.   

"We will ensure that there is no law and order issue during the event. We have got appropriate number of cops on duty," Deven Bharti, joint CP Law and Order, Mumbai, told rediff.com.

He, however, did not divulge the number of cops stationed around the venue. A senior cop manning one of the four check points, told rediff. com that more than 300 personnel from the Mumbai police, SRPF and Mumbai Riot Control platoon have been posted around the venue.

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