Security alert: Search on for 2nd day; Navy calls off op

Police said none of the men could be traced so far even as Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who was in Pune, said the information about suspicious armed people being spotted in Uran was yet to be corroborated. However, police said that based on the description given by some school children, who spotted the armed suspects yesterday, their sketches were issued late last night.

Satish Mathur, Director General of Police, said, "Search operations by police is still on in Uran area. But, so far, nothing significant has been come across." He said police had also submitted a confidential report on the search operations to the government. A high-level meeting of Police officials and National Security Guard (NSG) unit commanders was also held at Uran in the morning, where schools and colleges have been shut on Friday.

The Western Naval Command (WNC) of Navy, which called of the search operation, in an official statement here said, "As far as Indian Navy is concerned, operations based on Thursday's sightings of suspected terrorists are concerned are over. Sanitisation of naval areas has been undertaken.”

“Navy is maintaining close liaison with local police/other agencies for further updates or developments. However, as the state of alertness is concerned, Indian Navy maintains a high state of alert and tight vigil at all times in consonance with the prevailing circumstances,” it added.