Meeting discusses strategy for smooth conduct of LS polls

Senior police officers of four Left Wing Extremism (LWE) hit states attended an inter-state co-ordination meeting at Jeypore in Odisha on Thursday to chalk out strategy for smooth conduct of the Lok Sabha polls.

Senior police officials from Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Chhattisgarh and BSF attended the meeting which was chaired by Odisha's DIG (south-western range) Himansu Lal.

Officials said sharing of intelligence inputs and better coordination of forces including joint combing operations were discussed in details in the meeting.

"The present Maoist scenario in the region was assessed and discussion was held as to what steps required to be taken for free and fair election," said Lal.

SP (Koraput) Kanwar Vishal Singh said that regular follow up meetings will be conducted at DSP and inspector-in -charge levels of the respective police station areas and sensitive areas will be identified.

Sources said police officers from the three states have decided to focus on ...