<p>In the wake of recent threats that the city will be the next target for Sydney like hostage crisis and today's terror attack on a Pakistan's army school, police have increased security at certain important places here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"There is no need for public to be scared or worried because of this threat... we have conducted anti-sabotage checks at some vital places," DCP Central (Bengaluru) Sandeep Patil told reporters here.<br /><br />He said, "We have also posted police personnel at certain important places like malls. We have identified important places and taken precautionary measures."<br /><br />"We will be taking all precautionary measures that are required and there is no reason to be worried," he said.<br /><br />Stating that there is absolutely no threat perception to the country's IT capital, Bengaluru Police Chief M N Reddi had yesterday downplayed a threat on the micro blogging site that the city will be the next target for Sydney like hostage crisis.<br /><br />He had also promised to thoroughly verify the source of these claims.<br />In a 17-hour-long hostage drama a lone heavily-armed man of Iranian-origin had held 17 people hostage at a cafe in Sydney that ended late last night with the police storming it, resulting in three deaths.<br /><br />More than hundred students were killed as heavily-armed Arabic speaking Taliban suicide attackers stormed an army-run school today in Pakistan's Peshawar city, also using hostages as human shield.<br /><br />The presence and arrest of alleged handler of Pro-Islamic State Twitter account Mehdi Masroor Biswas in Bengaluru on Saturday had also raised concerns about security situation in the country's IT capital.</p>
<p>In the wake of recent threats that the city will be the next target for Sydney like hostage crisis and today's terror attack on a Pakistan's army school, police have increased security at certain important places here.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"There is no need for public to be scared or worried because of this threat... we have conducted anti-sabotage checks at some vital places," DCP Central (Bengaluru) Sandeep Patil told reporters here.<br /><br />He said, "We have also posted police personnel at certain important places like malls. We have identified important places and taken precautionary measures."<br /><br />"We will be taking all precautionary measures that are required and there is no reason to be worried," he said.<br /><br />Stating that there is absolutely no threat perception to the country's IT capital, Bengaluru Police Chief M N Reddi had yesterday downplayed a threat on the micro blogging site that the city will be the next target for Sydney like hostage crisis.<br /><br />He had also promised to thoroughly verify the source of these claims.<br />In a 17-hour-long hostage drama a lone heavily-armed man of Iranian-origin had held 17 people hostage at a cafe in Sydney that ended late last night with the police storming it, resulting in three deaths.<br /><br />More than hundred students were killed as heavily-armed Arabic speaking Taliban suicide attackers stormed an army-run school today in Pakistan's Peshawar city, also using hostages as human shield.<br /><br />The presence and arrest of alleged handler of Pro-Islamic State Twitter account Mehdi Masroor Biswas in Bengaluru on Saturday had also raised concerns about security situation in the country's IT capital.</p>