Anna Hazare provided 'Z' category security

MUMBAI: Social activist Anna Hazare has been provided with 'Z' category security, a senior police official said today.

"Hazare has been provided Z category security three days ago," Ahmednagar district SP Krishna Prakash told said.

Asked about reports that the anti-corruption crusader had rejected the security cover, the IPS officer said, "It is not true that he has rejected the security. What he told us is that he does not need the security.

"He said he never wanted any type of security cover and that he likes to mingle among people and does not perceive any threat," Krishna Prakash said.

Earlier, there were two persons who were part of Hazare's security. After the Z category cover was provided, now there are four guards and two PSOs protecting Hazare round the clock, he said.

"Whenever Hazare will leave his village Ralegan Siddhi, there will be a squad vehicle which will travel with him," the senior police officer said.

The 74-year-old Gandhian addressed a gram sabha at his village in western Maharashtra in his first public appearance after being discharged from a Gurgaon hospital.