‘The Kashmir Files’ director Vivek Agnihotri gets ‘Y’ category security cover
The Union Home Ministry has received the intelligence inputs of threat to Agnihotri after his film which highlighted brutality endured by Kashmir Pandits in Kashmir valley.
The Union Home Ministry has provided the pan India ‘Y’ category security cover of CRPF to Vivek Agnihotri, director of The Kashmir Files.
The Union Home Ministry has received the intelligence inputs of threat to Agnihotri after his film which highlighted brutality endured by Kashmir Pandits in Kashmir valley.
He will be protected by CRPF during his stay and travel all over India, sources said. The ‘Y’ category cover involves the deployment of four to five armed commandos in close proximity of the protectee.
In the wake of his new release, which is based on the lives of Kashmiri Pandits, the filmmaker was receiving threats on social media.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister has applauded the film, even the BJP government at Centre has given support for the film. Many BJP ruled states given subsidy for the film.
The Kashmir Files has crossed ₹100 crores at the box office, stars Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty and Pallavi Joshi in lead roles and has received massive support across the country.
The film has showcasing the struggles and pain of Kashmiri Pandits, who had to leave Kashmir Valley in the 90s following attacks on them by Pakistan backed terrorists.
The central intelligence agencies carried out a threat perception and recommended that Agnihotri should be given a VIP security cover said an official cited above.
CRPF currently provides security to 117 persons in different categories such as Z+, Z, Y, Y+ and X.
The protectees include union home minister Amit Shah, BJP president J P Nadda, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Adar Poonawala among others.
