Five prominent temples in Punjab received bomb threat emails on Thursday. The police said that the email also said that blasts would be carried out in some government institutions. Those alerted by that conducted regular inspections in those temples. It is worrying that these developments are taking place in the background of the completion of 42 years of Operation Blue Star in two days.
Durgiana Temple in Amritsar, Mukteshwar Dham Temple in Pathankot, Devi Talab Mandir in Jalandhar, Mysar Khana Temple in Bathinda and Matakali Temple in Patiala received these threats. As Operation Blue Star is 42 years old, the police, who have already made strict security arrangements, became more alert with this threatening mail. It has been revealed that no suspicious objects have been found in the inspections conducted at the Devi Talab temple. Although it seems that they are fake threats made with the intention of scaring people, they will not take any risk.
Operation Blue Star continued in June 1984. The Indian Army has taken military action to catch the terrorists hiding in the temple. This ‘Operation Blue Star’, which continued under the command of Major General Brar, became one of the biggest military operations undertaken by the Indian Army. 83 Indian soldiers were martyred in that military operation which was undertaken on the orders of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The separatist leader Bhindran Wale and other separatist leaders were also killed
