Pathankot car snatching case: Suspects at large, terror angle not ruled out

Four people, who had snatched an SUV from its driver at gunpoint near Madhopur in Punjab's Pathankot district, remain at large, even as police did not rule out a terror angle.

The snatching incident took place Tuesday night when the driver stopped the car after one of the passengers complained of vomiting.

We are on the job to nab them and a terror angle cannot not be ruled out till they are caught," a senior Punjab Police official said Thursday.

Searches for the suspects continue even as there was an input by the Punjab Police's counter-intelligence wing that six to seven Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorists are "planning to move towards Delhi" from the state.

Several teams have been formed to crack the snatching case, police said, adding that personnel in border districts of Pathankot, Gurdaspur, Batala, Amritsar (Rural) and Tarn Taran have been asked to remain alert and maintain vigil.

The Punjab Police is coordinating with the Jammu and Kashmir Police to trace the suspects. Several checkpoints have been set up in border areas and on highways, and vehicles are also being thoroughly checked, police said.

Officials in Jammu said a team led by a DSP-rank officer of the Punjab Police reached here Thursday in connection with the car snatching case