NSG to review security arrangement at RSS HQs

Nagpur: The latest strikes of IS in Paris seems to have raised the security concerns in India too and the intelligence services have started reviewing the security arrangements at sensitive locations across the country. As part of the exercise, a team of senior officers of National Security Guard (NSG) is likely to reach the city on Tuesday to review security arrangements of RSS headquarters at Mahal and Hedgewar Bhavan in Reshimbagh, the headquarters of Sangh Parivar.
Intelligence agencies had already pointed out that Nagpur was on the radar of terror outfits for being the home of RSS headquarters. In 2006, city police had thwarted a terror attack on the building and three terrorists were gunned down in an early morning encounter. Incidentally, the then zonal deputy commissioner of police Prabhat Kumar, now posted as IGP (law and order), has been appointed as the nodal officer to coordinate the visit and security audit of RSS and Hedgewar Bhavan by the NSG team. According to a highly placed source, the NSG team is likely to spend a couple of days focusing on stepping up the security of these sensitive locations and ensuring a fool-proof plan to eliminate any potential threat.
The central government had earlier this year already handed over the security of the RSS headquarters and its chief functionaries like Mohan Bhagwat to Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) replacing the Maharashtra’s State Reserve Police Force (SRPF). Even, the security of Hedgewar bhavan too was handed over to the CISF for enhancing its security layers around the sensitive location.
IGP Kumar said security review was part of the agency’s national responsibility. “NSG carries out this exercise routinely at various locations across the nation. NSG has its own agenda and yardsticks to follow at any given venue that they scrutinize,” he said. He added that the agency may furnish its suggestions or undertake other measures to help frame a fresh security set up around these locations.
It is learnt that the security threat around RSS and Hedgewar bhavan has increased manifold after IS and its associated terror outfits launched their war with global ambition. With India being an automatic target of intelligence services of its hostile neighbours prompting various terror outfits to infiltrate the nation and carry out relentless attacks, country’s central and state-based security agencies have started orchestrated moves to safeguard the sensitive venues. An attack at such locations could also trigger a bigger problem of communal disharmony across the country.