Kanpur: Two days after serial blasts targeted Narendra Modi's Patna rally, the Uttar Pradesh police today said they had received intelligence inputs about terrorists plotting to attack the BJP's prime ministerial candidate's October 19 rally in Kanpur.
"Three days before Narendra Modi's rally here, the police had received an alert from IB (Intelligence Bureau) that three terrorists were present in the city and were planning to attack the rally. They could have used rocket launcher and IED (Improvised Explosive Devices)," Kanpur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Yashaswi Yadav told reporters today.
The SSP claimed that the terrorists had reached the city and even recced the venue of the rally.
"We had deployed policemen at and around the venue of the rally and had given them pictures of the suspected terrorists. This probably scared them," the SSP said.
"We had made strict security arrangements for the rally. Every person entering the venue was checked at the entrance gates. Policemen were deployed there in plain clothes also," he said.
