Police carry out search drives at major places in Amritsar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 28

Following an alert in the holy city in view of the New Year celebrations, recent incidents of sacrilege and the Ludhiana bomb blast incident, the city police carried out search operations in different parts of the city, including the inter-state bus terminus, IDH market, Mahan Singh Gate and Chheharta area.

The Punjab Police have been on alert following the bomb explosion in a Ludhiana court with the assembly elections two months away. With investigations hinting at the involvement of anti-national forces in Pakistan having a nexus with drug peddlers and criminal elements, the police have intensified search

operations to thwart any untoward incident in the city. The police said anti-national

elements were hell bent on vitiating the peaceful atmosphere in Punjab.

Police teams headed by ACP Manjit Singh carried out search operation in Bus Stand and IDH Market. He interacted with the shopkeepers and asked them to remain vigilant. He asked them to inform the police in case they found the movement of suspicious elements in the busy market. He also asked them to take the mobile number of concerned police officer of their area and create a whatsapp group for sharing information.

Parminder Singh Bhandal, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Law and Order, informed that police teams comprises of black commandoes searched the buses and the scanned the entire complex. The aimlessly wondering youth were searched. “These are very testing times and people should help the police in thwarting any untoward incident by remaining vigilant.