All Gaps In Indian Borders Will Be Plugged By This Year End: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted that India's security policy was either "influenced or was overlapping" with the foreign policy.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah Saturday asserted that unfenced gaps along India's over 7,500-km-long land border will be sealed by the end of this year, thus covering areas that lead to infiltration and smuggling of arms and narcotics. He also asserted that India's security policy was either "influenced or was overlapping" with the foreign policy and it was only after Narendra Modi became prime minister that the country got an independent security strategy. Mr Shah was delivering the annual ''Rustamji memorial lecture'' instituted by the Border Security Force (BSF) in memory of its first director general (DG) K F Rustamji. An officer of the 1938 batch of the British-era Imperial Police, KF Rustamji headed the BSF for nine years. He died in 2003.