AGARTALA, AUG 11 (TIWN): Security was beefed up in the state ahead of the 68th Independence Day celebrations in the wake of terror threats from banned militant outfit – National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), officials said.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) recently issued alert for all NER states ahead of the Independence Day. The alert came shortly after the UNC, NLFT and other rebel groups of the region announced boycott against the I’Day.

Asked about special measures adopted to tackle the situation, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Nepal Chandra Das said that all border areas with neighbouring Bangladesh were put under tight vigil. “We have asked BSF authorities to tighten security in the border. The contingent of CRPF deployed in the state was alerted as well”, he said.

Das further said that the state police had started standard precautionary measures in urban and rural areas. “We have started checking and frisking vehicles in the urban areas. Foot patrols and mobile patrols were increased in the rural areas; focus was laid on distant villages”, he said.

A standard alert was sounded across all police stations of the state, the IG informed.

All police stations in Tripura were put on maximum alert and BSF was alerted so that no insurgent could cross the 856 km-long Indo-Bangla international border in Tripura from their hideout in Bangladesh.

Dog squads and bomb squads were pressed into action on Monday as well. Sniffers were seen checking around the Badharghat railway station and major public places of the city on the day.