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- By Parinda News Bureau, January 30, 2006, 09:42 IST
Mumbai, Jan. 29: The Mumbai Police would ask the Reserve Bank of India to take steps to govern use of bank lockers following recovery of arms from the locker of a local branch of State Bank of India (SBI) on January 27.
Police officials feel that the recent seizure should not be taken as a mere recovery of arms and explosives that was kept 15 years ago. The incident has taught a lesson that the possibility of terrorist elements hatching plans to execute explosions by placing timer explosives in bank lockers, cannot be ruled out, they said.
"We are likely to convene a meeting of officials of RBI and banking institutions to cover our security concerns and ask them to take appropriate measures," said Mumbai Police Commissioner A N Roy.
Roy said that Mumbai Police would only convey their security concerns to bank authorities and it was up to them (RBI and banks) to evolve guidelines to keep check on the use of bank lockers and see how to implement them.
When asked if stricter control would not mean inconvenience to common bank locker users, Roy said it will have to be worked out how to tackle the security issues while ensuring that people are not put to inconvenience.
Mumbai Police sources, however, said that some of the security concerns which were not existent at the time when the person who deposited weapons in the bank locker, have now been taken care of.
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