Even teenagers to be frisked at Wankhede

Threats to the World Cup cricket matches in Mumbai loom large over the head of the Mumbai police who are responsible for providing security at the playing venue and hotel where the players are being put up by the Mumbai Cricket Association.

Since the last two months, intelligence Bureau reports from the Centre are regularly being circulated to the Mumbai police on terror outfits across the border planning to strike at the Wankhede stadium which Mumbai police are working on relevant inputs, to update the security management plan A Taliban suicide- bomber attacking a funeral in north- west Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 37 people in the latest series of Islamist militant attacks aimed at undermining Pakistan's U. S. - backed government, has made Mumbai police to sit back and re- work on their security plan during the World Cup matches.

A teenager blowing himself at a funeral in Peshawar has trigger an alarm in the city police force, thereby led to review the security measures in and around venue. We had identified vulnerable locations on land and sea for a terror attack during the games. Even though we have in place a security plan to counter a suicide attack, we have not included children in their early teens in the list of terror suspects.

The suicide-bomber incident in Peshawar has made the police sit up and alter the security plan on frisking potential terror suspects of carrying out a fidayeen attack.

Normally adolescent and women fidayeens very rarely fall under the scanner of the police and hence they easily penetrate through the security cordon and then cause high damage by blowing themselves up in a crowded place.