Delhi Police issued an alert on Friday after a car hired from Pathankot went missing. The driver of the hired taxi was found dead in Himachal Pradesh. The Delhi Police issued a tweet with information on the car and tagged many media houses asking them to retweet it.
Weeks after the Pathankot terror attack, in which the stolen car of a police officer played a role, the police in Delhi and neighbouring states are trying to trace the car.
The Delhi Police has issued a similar tweet on Wednesday after an SUV with a blue beacon, belonging to a senior ITBP officer, was stolen from Noida near Delhi.
Just before the terror attack on the Pathankot Air Force base earlier this month, the official vehicle of a police officer was hijacked.
The blue beacon on the Mahindra XUV car of police officer Salwinder Singh helped the six terrorists get past several police check posts a day before the January 2 attack. The SUV was found abandoned a little over 500 metres from the base.
The terrorists used his car to enter Pathankot, where they attacked the air force base, one of the largest and more sensitive military installations in the western sector close to the border.
Seven security personnel were martyred and 20 were injured in the attack.