Hyderabad, July 01: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram today asserted that Hyderabad was no hub for terrorist activities in the country.
”Hyderabad cannot be branded as a hub for terrorists. No city can be branded in that manner,” he told a press conference after dedicating to the nation the country’s third National Security Guard (NSG) regional hub here. ”As a regular briefing, the central intelligence agencies had shared inputs with the Andhra Pradesh police three weeks ago.
This was essentially to improve the level of preparedness of the police personnel to prevent any terror attack. Acting on the intelligence inputs, the Hyderabad Police chief had issued a public alert and stepped up security,” he noted.
On a tip off from central intelligence agencies that three terrorists with foreign accent were planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the south, the State police had sounded a red alert in the capital city and also stepped up security in different parts of the state, including important places of worship including the world famous Lord Venkateswara temple in Tirumala, it may be recalled.
–Agencies