Bangalore:
The Karnataka government has decided to step up vigil in Bangalore and the areas bordering Kerala to check the likelihood of LTTE militants infiltrating the state.
Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has convened a meeting of the Home and the Forest departments in this regard.
He asked the forest department to be on high alert on the forest range bordering Kerala in view of the intelligence reports of some LTTE cadres trying to enter that state through sea route and then to Karnataka, according to Home Minister V S Acharya.
Acharya told reporters here that the question of providing shelter or treatment to Tamil civilians or LTTE sympathisers who may come from the war zone (in Sri Lanka) to Karnataka would be considered on humanitarian grounds after informing the Centre. But a vigil would be maintained on their activities, he said.
He said the government does not foresee any law and order problem in the state in view of the Sri Lankan army defeating the LTTE.
He also pointed that Tamil Nadu had taken similar steps to check infiltrators from entering the state.