The Delhi police have taken down the posters it had put up across the city on November 20, showing two alleged Jaish-e-Mohammad operatives.

On Monday, a seminary in Pakistan had claimed that the students shown in the poster were its students and had “never visited India”.

On 20 November, the Delhi police had sounded a high alert in the national capital after receiving information of two suspected JeM terrorists infiltrating into Delhi. The photograph released by the police showed two bearded men in kurtas and traditional headgear posing next to a milestone, which reads ‘Delhi 360 km, Ferozepur 9 km’.

The police mistook the milestone’s Firozpur with a town in India’s Punjab following which the national capital was put on high alert.

The men, in the picture, were later identified as Nadeem and Tayyab. Mufti Zahid, administrator of Jamia Imdadia in Pakistan’s Faisalabad identified the men as students of his seminary who had never visited India.

According to a report in The Dawn, Mufti Zahid said that Nadeem and Tayyab were students of the seminary for the last couple of years. He said both had visited Lahore some days ago to attend the Tablighi congregation at Raiwind and then went to Ganda Singh border to watch the flag-lowering ceremony. They had taken pictures along a milestone which showed the distance to Delhi and Ferozepur and shared a picture on the social media.

The same pictue, which has now been taken down, was used by the Delhi police in their advisory.

Releasing the pictures, the police had asked the public to be alert. Residents were also been asked to report to the Paharganj police station on 011-23520787 or 011-2352474 in case they have any information regarding the two men.

The advisory of the Delhi Police was issued hours after a 28-year-old Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) terrorist wanted in the murder of a CID Intelligence Officer of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, Imtiyaz Ahmad Mir, was arrested from the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Tuesday.

Earlier in November, the Punjab Police had placed the state on alert after its counter-intelligence wing indicated that six to seven Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists “could be moving towards Delhi” from the state.

The alert was sounded in the wake on an incident in which four people had taken over a taxi at gunpoint in Pathankot around 11:30 pm on November 13, sparking fears of another 2016-like terrorist attack in Pathankot.