India steps up security for US embassy; 150 cops deployed

Thu, 02 January 2014

20:36

India has stepped up security at the US Embassy and other American institutions in Delhi, deploying as many as 150 police personnel during a 24-hour period.

Allaying US concerns about the security of their institutions after barricades outside the embassy were removed as a fallout of the arrest of senior Indian diplomat, official sources said today that at any given time 50 police personnel are deployed.

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