Mumbai: A day after two schoolchildren allegedly spotted five armed men — clad in black masks and pathani suits of the same colour — in Uran, the Indian Navy called off its search operations in the area on Friday evening.
It also scaled down its alertness level to “semi-high” from the “highest level”, even as the Navi Mumbai Police released sketches of two of the suspects on Thursday night. The police, though, is continuing with its own search operations in and around Uran, having deployed a large number of officers there. When contacted, Maharashtra police chief Satish Mathur said, “Mumbai continues to be in a state of high alert and our checks are on.”
On Thursday, two schoolchildren — a boy studying in class IX and a girl in class X — had told their teachers about having spotted five men moving suspiciously near a bus depot in Uran.
Considering Uran’s proximity to Mumbai, with a mere 50 km separating the two places, the state police had sounded an alert and automatic weapons-toting teams from various special forces — including from the NSG, ATS and Force One — were deployed for combing operations.
Police said none of the men could be traced so far even as CM Devendra Fadnavis said the information about suspicious armed people was yet to be corroborated.
