New Delhi: The security scenario in the country came up for a review at a meeting of the National Security Council chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday.
The meeting comes in the wake of intelligence reports of possible terror threats via sea to Maharashtra and Goa, which led to the Navy and Coast Guard launching operations to locate a rogue ship in the Arabian Sea.
The search by Navy and Coast Guard was still on though there was no result even 24 hours after the operation was launched, sources said. The heightened coastal security alert comes against the backdrop of the audacious terrorist attacks in Mumbai on November 26 last year.
The nearly three-hour-long meeting, attended by Union Minister AK Antony, P Chidambaram and SM Krishna, and National Security Advisor MK Narayanan, is also said to have reviewed the security arrangements for the ongoing Amarnath Yatra, an annual pilgrimage, in Jammu and Kashmir.
This year`s Amarnath Yatra has been incident-free and the government would like to keep it this way through the rest of the yatra period this year, sources said.
Though the meeting discussed all internal threat issues, the external threats from neighbouring countries did not figure in the meeting, PMO sources said.
Others who attended the meeting include Principal Secretary to Prime Minister TKA Nair, Home Secretary GK Pillai, Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar and Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, apart from RAW secretary and Director Intelligence Bureau.
Also present during the discussions were Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta, Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor and Air Chief Marshal PV Naik.
Bureau Report
