Madhya Pradesh: The Gwalior bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has received an email threatening a bomb attack at singer Diljit Dosanjh’s upcoming concert in Indore, scheduled for November 15.
According to the police, the IP address of the person who sent the email appears to be linked to a foreign network. They are trying to trace its actual location and identify the sender.
The email threat stated that the stage where the singer would perform would be blown up. An IP address is a unique number assigned to every device on a network, similar to a digital mailing address.
The police are on high alert and are taking no chances. Security has also been tightened around the High Court and the residences of judges. Gwalior Police Chief Sutkeerti Somvanshi confirmed that the threatening email had been received.
Diljit began the Indian leg of his Aura Tour on October 30 with a packed show at Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. On November 7, he announced that he would visit Indore and made a special mention of the city’s famous poha.
“I will visit Indore on November 15. I will have poha first after visiting Indore. Anyone can say anything, but I will meet you in Indore on November 15. I have heard in the news that there will be some danger. But we know how to handle this. Do they know who we are?” he had said.
There has been a series of similar bomb threats since the singer began his India tour. On November 2, three private schools and the Indore mayor’s residence received emails threatening bomb blasts in connection with Dosanjh’s planned concert. Initial investigations suggested that the emails were likely hoaxes, although the police are taking every threat seriously.
The Punjabi singer has frequently been targeted by threats from pro-Khalistani groups abroad. During a concert in Canada’s Calgary in May, he briefly stopped his performance to confront individuals waving pro-Khalistani flags in the audience, asking them to stop and leave the venue.
In a report, the Canada-based Khalistani extremist groups were described by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service as being well connected to Canadian citizens who leverage local institutions to promote their violent extremist agenda and collect funds from unsuspecting community members, which are then diverted towards violent activities.
