CAPF chiefs meet in Kolkata to review security situation for Bengal elections
New Delhi, April 20 -- The chiefs of all Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) held a high-level meeting in Kolkata to review the security situation and deployment of personnel ahead of the assembly elections in West Bengal, even as the forces have rolled out a massive security grid in the eastern state by bringing in bullet proof anti-riot vehicles from Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), officials said.
West Bengal will vote in two phases on April 23 and April 29 and the results will be announced on May 4.
All CAPF service chiefs inspected arrangements ahead of polling in West Bengal, where flag marches were being held in several sensitive locations, officials said, requesting anonymity. They added that an additional 150 CAPF companies, requisitioned ...
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