Punjab, which had witnessed two terror attacks in less than six months, was on Wednesday put on high alert following an input from the Delhi Police warning about entry of three heavily armed Pakistani terrorists.
The alert said their target could be in Delhi, Goa or Mumbai.
“An alert has been issued after we received an input from the special cell of the Delhi Police,” a senior official in Punjab police said.
The alert, issued by the Director-General of Police (Law and Order) to all Commissionerates and SSPs, says a car is carrying three Pakistani militants and a local and the Pakistani militants have sufficient arms, ammunition and possibly suicide belts.
Police officers have been asked to focus on strict checking of vehicles, security of vital installations, including police buildings and defence establishments, religious places, markets, malls, railway stations and tracks, and educational institutions.
In January this year, terrorists attacked an Air Force base in Pathankot, killing seven military personnel. They had car-jacked two vehicles — one belonging to a Punjab Police SP and another to a taxi driver — to travel to the base near the Pakistan border.
In July last, the State witnessed an attack in Dinanangar of the border Gurdaspur district.
