Bangalore, September 3: Police Commissioner Jyothi Prakash Mirji on Sunday said investigation by City Police had revealed no plans to attack the Nuclear power station at Kaiga in Karnataka by those arrested for terror links over the past few days.
Mirji's observation was in contradiction to Union Home Secretary R K Singh who on Saturday said Kaiga was on the radar of the arrested men. Reports from Kaiga said police had heightened vigil at the nuclear power plant.
When mediapersons asked Mirji to comment on the Union home secretary's remarks about Kaiga being a target, he refused to comment on the issue. “As far as our investigations we haven't come across any such targets. The modules were targeting specific individuals and had no installations whatsoever as their targets.”
Stating that he hadn't come across any such information, he suggested that the media may pose to the Union home secretary their question on the issue.
On Saturday, the media had reported Singh as saying that the arrest of 11 persons in Karnataka had averted a major terror strike on defence and nuclear installations.
As a precautionary measures, security has been stepped up at the long-neglected checkpost near the Kaiga Atomic Power Station in the wake of the reported terror threats. The Police on Saturday began work on renovating the Halur checkpost, which was in a dilapidated condition for the past three years.
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