Email warns of blowing up Nanak Sahib Jhira in Bidar

Bidar: The Guru Nanak Sahib Jhira Gurudwara had recently received an anonymous email message of planting multiple bombs to blow up the holy shrine of Sikhs.

The Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee alerted the police authorities of the threat email. Police teams, along with the dog squad and the bomb detection and disposal squad, searched the premises but no explosives were found. They arrived at a conclusion that the email was a hoax.

Jagjeet Singh, a staff member of the Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee told DH that he saw the threat mail on Thursday morning and immediately informed the committee office-bearers. “I have lodged a complaint with Nutan Nagar police. The police, along with a bomb squad, searched the premises. They did not find any explosives,” he said. Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee president Sardar Balbir Singh has urged the devotees not to panic and that he would visit the shrine soon.

The Nanak Sahib Jhira Gurudwara, one of the most revered shrines of Sikhs, was built in 1948 around a sacred spring believed to have been created by the first Sikh guru Guru Nanak during his second missionary tour.

The jurisdictional police have registered a case and investigations are underway to trace the origin of the email and track down the sender.