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Akshardham Temple gets army cover

The 10 para group of Indian army makes a blueprint of the temple, which is among possible terror targets.

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The Indian Army is busy making the blueprints of Akshardham Temple to counter any further terror attacks. They are concentrating on the entry and exit points of the temple. The move followed intelligence input from the centre that warned of a possible terror attack on some important buildings of the state. The Akshardham Temple was apparently on the list.

Sources in the Indian army told DNA that a specific unit of the army — 10 Para group is busy making the blueprint of the temple.  "It is also looking at some other nine vulnerable buildings of the state and will soon have a blueprint of these buildings as well," the source said. The team visited Ahmedabad & Gandhinagar some days ago for the purpose.

"The team is thinking the way a terrorist would do and have thought of all the possible ways in which a terror attack can take place on the temple," the defence source told DNA. 

The source further said that once the blueprint of Akshardham Temple is completed, the same will be done for other vulnerable buildings.

The source, however, refused to name the other buildings that figure in the list as possible terror targets.  "The entire premises have been scanned by the group several times. The group has studied the major escape routes, security points, public entries and exits and secret doors in the temple," the source said. The defence source said that the team had also studied the attack that took place on the temple on September 25-2002.

The group studied the modus operandi the attackers used to
enter the temple and kill innocents. The 10 Para group of the army recently received the Ashok Chakra for its role in counter terrorism in Kashmir as well as for its role following the Mumbai terror attacks.

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