Simply 10 days after the Punjab Police raised a excessive alert, two suspected terrorists from Pakistan allegedly entered Indian territory and had dinner in a border village.
Now, Punjab and Jammu Police are trying to find them.
The event comes forward of the beginning of the Amarnath Yatra. Punjab police have been already working to safe the Yatra route.
Final evening, the police management room in Pathankot acquired a name from a neighborhood resident of Kot Bathian, a village close to the worldwide border. The caller claimed that two closely armed terrorists had compelled him at gunpoint to serve them dinner at his farmhouse.
Police raised a excessive alert in Pathankot and Gurdaspur after this cellphone name, and now a search operation is underway.
The police had already been on excessive alert within the area since June 15. Beginning June 29, the federal government will allow Shri Amarnath pilgrims to enter Jammu and Kashmir from Lakhanpur. Previous to this, volunteers who yearly arrange free langars (group kitchens) for the pilgrims have already began arriving on the pilgrimage route since June 8. Dozens of automobiles carrying langar volunteers arrive day by day.
Ten days in the past, the Punjab Police issued directions to extend safety within the border areas of Pathankot district, particularly close to Kathua district, and to conduct 24-hour patrols in coordination with different safety businesses. Notably, the Bamiyal space of Pathankot district borders Pakistan, adjoining to Nagri and Kotpunnu within the Hiranagar space of Kathua district.
Equally, Pathankot police intensified safety on the Madhopur checkpoint, positioned close to Lakhanpur in Punjab. Punjab police ensured that each car touring between Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab handed underneath strict safety surveillance.
There was additionally a strict police presence on the Sunderchak Chak checkpoint close to Kirdiyan Gandyal in Pathankot. Moreover, safety was elevated on the street connecting Dunera by way of the Atal Setu bridge, in response to rising terrorist actions in Jammu and Kashmir.
Nevertheless, to this point, the police haven’t been in a position to find the suspected terrorists. The Ravi River kinds the boundary with Pakistan, and there have been openings within the iron fence that allowed terrorists to enter Punjab twice in 2015, resulting in assaults on a police station in Dinanagar and an airforce base in Pathankot.