Saturday, April 2 2005 13:21 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil yesterday (April 1, 2005) chaired a high-level meeting to discuss security arrangements for the smooth operation of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service.

Besides Patil, the Centre's pointsman on Jammu and Kashmir N N Vohra, Home Secretary V K Duggal, Special Secretary Anil Chaudhry, Border Security Force (BSF) chief R Mossohary, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) chief J K Sinha, Intelligence Bureau Director E S L Narsimhan and Army officials attended the meeting.

Vohra said the security arrangements for the bus was reviewed. During the meeting, Patil was told by security officials that the list of passengers published in newspapers in Jammu and Kashmir, was leaked from the Pakistani side, official sources said.

At the meeting, it was decided to sanitise all the areas using multi-frequency jammers to neutralise improvised explosive devices of any frequency, they said.

Additional forces will be keeping vigil from mountaintops during the inaugural function on April 7 in Uri of North Kashmir and Srinagar, they added.