Kolkata Dec 2 (IANS) In order to ensure seamless conduct of the marquee I-League football match between East Bengal and Mohun Bagan security will be tightened from Sunday morning with extra police force to be deployed inside the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan.
A meeting was held at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan between officials of the two clubs and state Sports Minister Aroop Biswas on the eve of the big-ticket clash which is slated for a 2 pm kick-off. Mohun Bagan are the home team for Sunday s game.
There will be 244 CCTV cameras in and around the stadium premises and the security arrangements will be similar to that of the FIFA U-17 World Cup it was learnt.
Not long ago fan trouble resulted in a Kolkata derby not being completed after Mohun Bagan abandoned a match mid-way after their player Syed Rahim Nabi was hit in the face by a stone hurled from the crowd at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan.
As a result the green and maroon brigade were slapped with a two-year ban from the I-League which was later lifted.
The last derby played at the colossal venue which hosted 11 U-17 World Cup matches including the final was on January 23. That match had ended 1-1.
--IANS
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