Here's all you need to know about Kangana's Y-plus category security

Actor Kangana Ranaut, who is in a middle of a verbal duel with Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut, has been granted Y-plus category security by the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA).

Mumbai: Kangana Ranaut has been given Y category security and will be protected by about 10 armed commandos, the Union Home Ministry announced on Monday, propelling the actor to the centre of a heated political row with Maharashtra's ruling Shiv Sena and its coalition partners criticising the BJP-led Centre for the decision.

Ranaut, who had said she feared Mumbai Police after the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput and likened the Maharashtra capital to Pakistan occupied Kashmir, thanked Union Home Minister Amit Shah and declared that no one could crush a patriot.

• The Panga actor is the first Bollywood actor who will be guarded by CRPF commandos, an official privy to the development said. It is immediately not known whether she will have to pay the government for the security.
• Y-plus category central cover entails the deployment of about 10 armed commandos who will work in shifts around the clock, an official explained.
• Among these commandos, Ranaut will have two-three armed PSOs (personal security officers) everytime she is on the move while other armed personnel will secure her residence.
• An 11-member commando team of the CRPF has been provided by the Ministry of Home Affairs for her security yesterday.
• Y-plus security to Ranaut means a specific threat has been vetted by intelligence agencies. She is also likely to get an escort vehicle for carrying her security team.
• As per the threat assessment report prepared by central security agencies, Ranaut may face danger to her life from narcotics syndicates and other hostile elements for speaking against them, the official said.
• It is immediately not known whether Ranaut will have to pay or not to the government for the security she is getting now.

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The CRPF, the country's largest paramilitary force, has been providing security to about 60 dignitaries and high-profile persons, including Amit Shah, Chief Justice of India S A Bobde, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi as well as her children Rahul and Priyanka.