Section 13 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) has been added to the FIR. The Director General of Police has issued directions to the field formations to remain on high alert from Sunday, while the ADGP (CID), the IG and the DIG ranges and the district SPs have been directed to seal all interstate borders or barriers and keep strict vigil at the places of probable hideouts i.e. hotels and sarais, etc.

It was on this day in 1971 that Himachal Pradesh was conferred the status of a full state -- the 18th in the country.