Security for cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar, superstar Amitabh Bachchan and other prominent personalities has been stepped up following intelligence reports that they could be targets of terrorists, police said in Mumbai on Saturday.
Tendulkar, who was enjoying an 'X' category security cover, has now been provided one-step up 'Y' category security, they said. This means that while armed bodyguards will accompany Tendulkar wherever he travels, his residence in Mumbai and other places where he visits in the country will be guarded by local police, they added.
Apart from Tendulkar, security of 'icons' staying in Mumbai like superstars Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, industrialist Mukesh Ambani, has also been stepped up, police said, refusing to divulge the nature of the security provided to them.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Protection and Security), Mumbai, Surendra Kumar, told PTI that security to Tendulkar and other personalities has been stepped up upon specific intelligence input.
"He (Tendulkar) is one of the iconic personalities and therefore his security arrangements have been further beefed up," Kumar said, adding that at present the star was in Bangalore and security arrangements were being taken care of by the local police there.