Checkpoints on Jammu-Pathankot freeway positioned on extreme alert after carjacking incident (Representational)
Jammu:
All checkpoints alongside Jammu-Pathankot freeway have been positioned on extreme alert and security strengthened following an incident of carjacking by unidentified armed people throughout the neighbouring Punjab, a police official acknowledged at current.
The Director Fundamental of Punjab Police had sounded an alert in his state, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir after three people snatched a private automotive from its proprietor after injuring him with a firearm in Dinanagar area of Gurdaspur on Friday night time.
“After receipt of communication from the Punjab DGP, the entire checkpoints have been alerted and security strengthened as a security measure to care for any state of affairs,” the police official knowledgeable data firm Press Perception of India.
He acknowledged the patrolling throughout the areas bordering Punjab was moreover intensified all through the night time time.
“An in depth vigil is being maintained to nab the assailants within the occasion that they try and enter Jammu and Kashmir,” the official acknowledged.
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