Dalai gets Z security after intel warning of likely threats

NEW DELHI: The Union home ministry has sanctioned Z-category

security

cover to Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on an all-India basis, after intelligence inputs warned of likely threats to him, reports Bharti Jain.
Sources, however, refused to disclose details of the trigger for the heightened security for the spiritual leader, who escaped to India after China occupied Tibet and has since become a thorn for

Beijing

as asymbol of Tibetan resistance. CRPF will be handling his security detail, which will comprise commandos.

Bharti Jain is senior editor with The Times of India, New Delhi. She has been writing on security matters since 1996. Having covered the Union home ministry, security agencies, Election Commission and the ‘prime’ political beat, the Congress, for The Economic Times all these years, she moved to TOI in August 2012. Her repertoire of news stories delves into the whole gamut of issues related to terrorism and internal strife, besides probing strategic affairs in India’s neighbourhood.