Ahmedabad, (PTI) More than 11,000 personnel of various agencies including Gujarat Police, NSG, RAF, and home guards among others will be deployed in Ahmedabad and at Narendra Modi Stadium here during the India-Pakistan World Cup cricket match on October 14, a senior officer said on Monday.
The high-level security arrangements have been put in place following threats, he said.
Though Ahmedabad has never witnessed communal violence during cricket matches played in the city in the past 20 years, security forces will be deployed in several communally sensitive areas as a precautionary measure, said Ahmedabad Commissioner of Police G S Malik.
