Bengaluru/New Delhi: Security has been tightened in Mandya, Chamrajnagar, Mysuru, Bengaluru and other parts of the state ahead of the Cauvery Supervisory Committee meeting in New Delhi on Monday, September 19. People from both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are waiting for the outcome with their fingers crossed.

“The police, ahead of crucial Cauvery Supervisory Committee meeting tomorrow, have taken necessary security steps to check any untoward incident,” IGP (Central Range) Seemanth Kumar told reporters here.

Supreme Court on September 15 had taken Karnataka and Tamil Nadu governments to task for failing to check violence following its order on the Cauvery dispute, asserting that its verdict “has to be complied with” and violent agitation would serve no purpose as those aggrieved were free to take legal recourse.

According to police sources, RAF and BSF platoons will be deployed in Bengaluru Rural and Kolar districts which share borders with Tamil Nadu. Police would be deployed on national highways to check traffic disruptions likely to be made by pro-Kannada outfits in next two days.

Kannada organizations including Kannada Okkuta Leader Vatal Nagaraj had threatened to disrupt vehicles at Attibele near Hosur, which falls in Tamil Nadu.

The IGP has directed the police to take miscreants into preventive custody and is in talks with leaders belonging to political parties and pro-Kannada groups.

The Committee is analysing the data given by Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to decide on the quantum of water to be released. The panel, which has to take a decision on the quantum of Cauvery water to be released by Karnataka to Tamil Nadu and other states, had sought the information from them in its last meeting on September 12. The Committee is headed by the Union Water Resources Secretary with Chief Secretaries of the Cauvery basin states (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Puducherry and Kerala) as members.