India paramilitary forces heighten vigil along Sir Creek
Kutch (Gujarat):Indian paramilitary forces have heightened vigil along the Sir Creek area, 100 kilometres estuary that lies between
Gujarat and the Pakistani province of Sindh. "We have got surveillance equipment which is keeping round the clock surveillance from the parts where infiltration
or any kind of movement can emanate, so these are being kept under surveillance.
Besides, we are guarding the border areas where they can come and it is being
guarded very heavily because that remains the only point from where somebody is
expected to come," said Vishnu Dutt, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Gujarat
state frontier. The development has come, as the country is commemorating its
first anniversary of the Mumbai attack that killed 173 people dead and 308 injured.
Ten gunmen landed on Mumbai shores by boats at sunset on November 26, 2008 and
fired indiscriminately at a busy railway station, a Jewish settlement, a cafe
and luxury hotels-Trident and Taj Palace Hotel. One gunman, Mohammed Ajmal Kasab,
a Pakistani national, was taken alive and is presently facing trial in a special
court in Mumbai. New Delhi and Islamabad agreed in December 2006 to conduct a
joint survey of the 100 km (60 mile) estuary. Each side's maritime security officials
regularly arrest fishermen who stray into the other's territorial waters, as there
is no clear demarcation line, a major grouse of fishing communities in the region.
