Are the recovered explosives crudely made or very sophisticated?
Some of these bombs had a sophisticated mechanism but a number of them were crude bombs. So, the presumption is that these elements might have got training from someone who is an expert. What are the measures that you are taking to make the people and the city safe? The people and the city are very safe. I have said on many occasions that we have taken enormous preventive measures. We have formed checkposts and they are there on all the roads leading to Madras, and all the vehicles moving under suspicious circumstances are being checked thoroughly and we are conducting a series of search operations at intervals. This has become a routine affair now, we have provided security to all important public places like hospitals, banks, hotels, railway stations, etc. In some of the trouble-prone areas, we have deployed the police. We have arranged meetings with representatives from all these institutions and discussed the precautionary steps to be taken. The message has gone down well and, at m
