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Twenty-six Pakistani nationals have sneaked into Uttar Pradesh through the border with Nepal and a high security alert has been sounded, a senior police official said on Saturday.
"Pakistani nationals, numbering 26, entered Uttar Pradesh from Nepal and are reported missing," Gorakhpur Inspector General of Police Malkiyat Singh said in Bahraich.
All police stations in the border districts in Gorakhpur zone have been alerted and instructed to track them, he said.
Apprehending that the Pakistani nationals might indulge in anti-national activities, Singh said services of intelligence agencies have also been roped in to locate them.
Special vigil was being maintained on the 500-km-long Indo-Nepal border in Gorakhpur zone and Special Services Bureau personnel had been deployed there replacing the border police, the IG said.
The entire Indo-Nepal border areas would soon be handed over to the SSB under the 'one border, one police force and one command plan' of the Centre, he added.
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