NEW DELHI, Nov. 3—A Government spokesman said today that Indian troops had “strict orders” not to cross the border in their confrontation with Pakistani troops.

The spokesman, at a news briefing here, said he was making this “clarification” to correct newspaper reports suggesting that Indian troops might have crossed the border last weekend in a counteraction against Pakistani shelling of Kamalpur, a border town in Northeastern India.

When briefing newsmen on Monday, the spokesman was vague about the nature of the counteraction, sidestepping questions on whether Indian troops had entered Pakistani territory.

The spokesman also said that four Pakistani jet fighters intruded into Indian airspace yesterday over Punjab and that Indian planes had chased them away. On Monday, he said, a bomb exploded in a movie theater in Kismenganj near the East Pakistani border, killing four Indian civilians and injuring 46.