New Delhi: A week after the Punjab Police found arms drop by drones along the Indo-Pakistan border in Punjab, the government has stepped up security at the Amritsar’s Guru Ramdas International airport, sources said on Tuesday.
Sources in the government said that in view of the arms drop by Pakistani drones at the border, security at the Amritsar airport has been beefed up.
Here it worth mentioning that the Indian Air Force (IAF) earlier last week issued the orange alert following the recovery of the drones from the border area.
As a precautionary measure, keeping in mind the potential security threat to the Amritsar airport, snipers have been deployed at the watch towers and other important places at the airport along with the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), said sources adding that the decision to deploy snipers at the watch towers was aimed at countering any possible air threat from the enemy nation.
The enhanced security at the airport would remain in place till a fresh review of the security is undertaken.
It may be recalled that a total of eight terrorists were arrested till September 27. Investigations so far have revealed that Pakistan-based terror outfits have been smuggling arms into Punjab through drones since August.
Revelations by arrested terrorists of the Khalistan Zindabad Force led to recovery of a China-made drone, the second one that was used to airdrop arms and ammunition from Pakistan into India’s Punjab, from a village close to the border in Amritsar district on Friday.
The Indian Army and the Border Security Force have also sounded an all-out alert along the international border after reports of the drones.
According to an Intelligence source, China-made drones are capable of carrying a 10 kg payload each, made at least eight sorties this month to drop weapons, counterfeit currency and communications equipment across the heavily-guarded border in once-militant hotbed Punjab, an intelligence official said.