Pithoragarh: A high alert has been sounded at the border posts in Pithoragarh and Champawat districts, having a 241 km long border with Nepal, in the wake of a terror attack in Gurdaspur district of Punjab on Monday.
"We have sounded an alert in the district and at all the border posts along the porous Indo-Nepal border, keeping in mind the possibility of terrorists sneaking in from Nepal border into Indian territory.
"We are coordinating with the SSB, ITBP, Army and local intelligence units in this connection and have instructed the special task operation force officers (SOTF), main force safeguarding the Indo-Nepal border," Pithoragarh SP, Roshan Lal Sharma said.
The SP stated that the forces have also been asked to check the ID cards of Army personnel as the Gurdaspur incident involved terrorists camouflaged as army men.
"I reached the border post of Jhoolaghat after the news of the Punjab terror attack arrived. We are planning to organise a combing operation with SOTD, SSB Police and forest officers along with local villagers along the Indo-Nepal border tomorrow," Sharma said.
Meanwhile, Champawat SP, DS Kunwar said that a strict vigil is being kept at the border post at Tanakpur and the immigration post at Banabasa.
"We have intensified our searches at railway stations, market places and border posts with Nepal in Banbasa and Tanakpur areas," he said.
Three heavily-armed fidayeen in army fatigues, believed to have come from Pakistan, on Monday sprayed bullets on a moving bus and stormed a police station, killing eight persons, including an SP, while all the terrorists were gunned down in a day-long operation at Gurdaspur in Punjab.
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