Mumbai: The Metropolis was on November 6 placed under high alert and police resorted to "nakabandis and combing operations" at strategic locations particularly in lodges, railway stations, hospitals and shopping complexes as a precautionary measure to avert any terrorist attack.

The cops were not taking any chances particularly after the November 3 incident in Delhi in which two terrorists were killed in an encounter, police sources said.

Reports about stay of these terrorists in and around Mumbai were being taken seriously by the police and thoroughly probed, the sources added.

The police have also undertaken combing operations in lodges, railway stations and sensitive areas since November 3, police said.

However, they refused to comment on reports of links of local persons with the terrorists, who were killed in the encounter at Delhi.

PTI