Amid tight security arrangements, the second batch of 1214 pilgrims, for this year’s annual Amarnath Yatra, left for the holy cave shrine from Yatri Niwas, Bhagwati Nagar Jammu this morning.

According to police sources the batch consisted of as many as 837 men, 227 women, 6 kinners and 144 sadhus,who amid the chanting of religious slogans, left for Srinagar in a cavaclade of fully escorted 33 vehicles.