Not leaving anything to chance, authorities will put in place a three-tier security ring during the Olympic torch relay on Thursday here as the Chinese Ambassador met the Delhi Police chief on Tuesday to discuss the arrangements.
The Rajpath will be under hawk-eyed vigil with the security ring including Chinese commandos, for the event to avoid protests by Tibetans.
The Chinese personnel, drawn from the Olympic Holy Flame Protection Group, will form the inner circle of the ring while the commandos of the elite National Security Guards will provide close proximity security for the torch relay.
Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yan on Tuesday met Delhi Police Commissioner Y S Dadwal and discussed the security arrangements made for the April 17 Olympic torch relay in the wake of protests by Tibetans.
Yan drove to the Police Headquarters on Tuesday and discussed with Dadwal the arrangements made by police with respect to the arrangements made for the event, sources said.
The meeting lasted for about 30 minutes and the Commissioner is understood to have briefed the Chinese envoy about the arrangements made by security establishment for the event, they said.
Meanwhile, intensifying their protests, around 30 Tibetans today took security forces by surprise when they carried out their own "torch relay" on the route of the Olympic flame run here to demonstrate against Chinese "atrocities" in their homeland.
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