Pol Maj-General Phanurat Lakboon, deputy commissioner of the bureau, said the police were deployed to maintain security ahead of the verdict reading in the rice-pledging case against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra. 
Phanura said police expect some 300 supporters of the former prime minister at the court to hear the verdict.

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Police tighten security around Supreme Court

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