Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who cut short his Saudi Arabia visit following the Pahalgam terrorist attack and avoided Pakistan airspace on the way back to India, chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security on Wednesday afternoon to draw up a response to what he had earlier termed as a “heinous act”.

Two residents of Pune, Kaustubh Ganbote and Santosh Jagdale, were tragically killed in the terrorist firing incident at Pahalgam, Kashmir, on Tuesday. Kaustubh Ganbote was from Kondhwa, while Santosh Jagdale hailed from Karve Nagar.

A day after a dastardly terror attack in Pahalgam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday chaired a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), which lasted over two hours.PM Modi cut short his two-day visit to Saudi Arabia in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack and returned to Delhi on Wednesday morning.