Soon after the militants struck in Gurdaspur, Jammu and Kashmir police reached out to Punjab by offering help and expertise to neutralise the militants who were holed-up in a police station.
War on terror has united two states after Jammu and Kashmir police sent state-of-the-art mobile bulletproof bunkers to help their Punjab counterparts to neutralise the holed-up militants, even as the Border Security Force (BSF) denied reports that the ultras infiltrated into India from the other side of International Border in Jammu frontier.
Soon after the militants struck in Gurdaspur, Jammu and Kashmir police reached out to Punjab by offering help and expertise to neutralise the militants who were holed-up in a police station.
Jammu and Kashmir police dispatched a fleet of state-of-the-art mobile bullet-proof vehicles, which have been successfully used by the counter-terror teams in assaults, evacuations and rescue during the anti militancy operations in the restive state.
Special teams of counter terror units have also been kept stand by to help the Punjab police in case of emergency situations during the operation.
"We have given them bullet-proof vehicles. Teams are on stand by but no teams have been sent so far. But these teams are available. Punjab police is equally competent to deal with situations when it comes to crisis," K Rajendra Kumar, director general of police, Jammu and Kashmir, told dna.
The stand-off was eerie similar to the attacks in Hiranagar, Samba and Kathua districts in the last few years. However, all these attacks were neutralised by police and Indian army using their experience and expertise in counter-terror operations in the militancy-plagued state.
What, however, had sparked an angry reaction was some reports that militants might had come from Jammu and Kashmir after they infiltrated from International Border in the districts neighbouring Punjab.
Border Security Force (BSF), which is responsible for guarding the International Border in Jammu division, urged the people not to rush with unverified reports about militants entering from Jammu.
"Dina Nagar is good 30 kilometres from the nearest point of Jammu International Border. Kindly do not run stories in haste," said a BSF officer in Jammu.
Director General of Jammu and Kashmir Police K Rajendra too denied the reports (that militants crossed from Jammu). "We do not have such information. It (ultras crossing into Punjab from Jammu) does not seem so," he said.
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