Guwahati: Airports and vital installations across the Northeast have been put on high alert following intelligence inputs suggesting strikes by jehadi groups.
A top intelligence official said there were reports that jehadis might hijack a plane or carry out explosions but these were yet to be corroborated and specified.
Meanwhile, security has been beefed up at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport at Borjhar near Guwahati and other important public installations, Guwahati city SSP V K Ramishetti said.
Asked whether jehadi elements or ULFA were planning such strikes, he said intelligence inputs received did not name any particular militant group.
Every year, ULFA and other militant groups in the northeast give a boycott call of both the Republic Day and Independence Day celebrations although this year no such call has not been issued so far.
''There are reports of such threats from various sources and the police have taken these seriously,'' Ramishetti told PTI.
The intelligence official, on the other hand, said the ULFA cannot pull off a hijack on its own and ''the jehadis will collaborate with the group for suck plans''.
The official, however, had doubts over the possibility of al Qaeda or other Taliban-sponsored militant groups being involved in the hijack plans.
According to army intelligence, sleeper cells of jehadi groups have been traced in the northeast, especially Assam.
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