Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut is to get Y+ security cowl from the CRPF (File)
New Delhi:
Kangana Ranaut is the first Bollywood actor to receive CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) security cover. Ms Ranaut, 33, has been given Y-Plus cowl on basis of a menace analysis report by the Residence Ministry.
The “Queen” actor now joins an elite membership that options Chief Justice of India SA Bobde and Union Laws Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. In step with an officer the central firm provides Y-Plus security for 15 people.
Apart from the Chief Justice and Mr Prasad, others on that guidelines are Congress chief Sachin Pilot and Vijay Kumar, who’s a former Director-Widespread of the corporate and is credited with the killing of sandalwood smuggler Veerappan.
Mr Kumar was moreover the earlier advisor to Satya Pal Malik, the earlier Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.
The CRPF moreover provides Z-Plus security to Residence Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. Ms Ranaut is solely two notches beneath them on the scale of security provided.
Z-Plus cowl will be provided to Mukesh Ambani, the Chairman of Reliance Industries Restricted. Nonetheless, Mr Ambani pays for this cowl, a senior officer revealed.
The Residence Ministry menace analysis report for Ms Ranaut was filed after a request from the Himachal Pradesh authorities made a request.
A senior official in North Block talked about Ms Ranaut had publically referred to individuals involved in drug cartels working inside Bollywood. In step with the official, the rapidly escalating political row in Mumbai added weight to the selection to produce her with security cowl.
Ms Ranaut has been centered by Shiva Sena and NCP leaders in Maharashtra after suggestions on the Sushant Singh Rajput case in distinction city to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
A fact-sheet from the Residence Ministry states that in full the CRPF provides security to as many as 60 VIPs.
A senior officer talked about that of these 60 people nearly 40 per cent have been non-political VIPs who had been given security cowl after directions from the courtroom by the centre.
