Jammu, Mar 7: Security has been tightened in Jammu and Kashmir today, a day after a top army commander disclosed that there were “disturbing” inputs about a terror attack in the country and also after the detection of a tunnel along the international border in Jammu region.
“We have already taken measures and the security has been placed on maximum alert across the entire state.
“Detection of the tunnel has in RS Pura sector has been taken very seriously”, Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police, K Rajendra Kumar has said.
He said that all necessary steps have been taken in wake of the disclosure made by the senior army commander and the detection of the tunnel on the IB.
“Specific inputs or no inputs or not necessary, but we have to be extra careful in the wake of the events that have been taking place in the recent past like the tunnel on the International border is a serious matter and adequate arrangements have been made,” Kumar said.
He said all “preventive and defensive” measures have been put in place and the forces have been asked to remain extra vigilant.
The General Officer in Commanding in Chief of the Western Command of the Army Lt Gen KJ Singh had Saturday said that there were disturbing inputs about a terror attack in the country.
“There are security-related problems today. You know, Maha Shivratri is coming. There are inputs which are disturbing but notwithstanding that extra care has been taken,” he had said.
“These events (terror attacks) are planned to create maximum media impact and when can you create a media impact when Parliament is in session, when a festival is taking place, so both happen to be going on…. So that is why, there are inputs but we have taken steps against that.
“I must assure you of that,” Lt Gen KJ Singh had said.
Terming the presence of the tunnel as a serious threat, the army commander had said that the tunnel was made to facilitate infiltration from across the border.
The Indian Coast Guard has enhanced surveillance along the West coast, more specifically in the seas off Gujarat, following inputs that 10 suspected LeT and JeM terrorists could have entered India from Pakistan to launch an attack.
“We have enhanced our air and sea surveillance following the security threat. Our surveillance is always 24×7, but since the input has come directly from the NSA, we are more cautious,” said a senior Coast Guard official.
The Coast Guard has not only pressed more ships into the sea for surveillance, but also increased the sorties of its planes for aerial vigil.
Ten Pakistani terrorists involved in 26/11 Mumbai attack had landed from Karachi via sea.
A high alert was sounded in Gujarat on Saturday after Pakistan National Security Adviser (NSA) Nasir Khan Janjua communicated to his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval about the terrorist infiltration.
Four National Security Guard (NSG) teams were rushed to Gujarat following the input which mentions about 10 militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) having entered India via Gujarat and that they could carry out a terror strike in Delhi.
