Centre downgrades safety cowl for ex-PM Manmohan Singh’s spouse | India Information – The Occasions of India

NEW DELHI: The Centre has downgraded the safety cowl of Gursharan Kaur, spouse of late ex-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, from Z-plus to Z, based mostly on her revised risk notion.
Sources within the govt informed TOI {that a} latest overview by the Central intelligence companies had discovered her risk degree to be decrease, main them to stipulate her to be positioned beneath ‘Z’ class safety.
Former PM Manmohan Singh had handed away on the age of 92 on December 26, 2024.
CRPF will proceed to man her ‘Z’ safety element, although with scaled down protocol and lesser variety of personnel.
A PTI report mentioned Kaur could have the safety of a couple of dozen armed commandos for her private safety in addition to for her dwelling.
Manmohan Singh was offered Z-plus cowl, together with a complicated safety liaison (ASL) protocol of the CRPF in 2019, after the federal government modified the Particular Safety Group Act to limit SPG safety for former prime ministers and their fast kin residing on the former’s allotted residence, to 5 years after the ex-PM has demitted workplace.
Singh had served as prime minister for 2 phrases between 2004 and 2014.