The terrorists’ system operates more through creating fear with threats than through actual violence.
The central and state governments are always concerned about the safety of the common man because the responsibility for the safety of ordinary citizens rests with the governments. Terrorists are engaged in creating chaos in the system by issuing threats and spreading fear.
Earlier, terrorists threatened to detonate bombs in schools in different cities of Punjab. They attempted to disrupt the education system by spreading panic among children and teachers. Now, their target seems to have shifted to the judicial system. The scope of the threats has also expanded. The method remains the same: anonymous emails.
Now, not only Punjab but also courts in Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, and Kerala have received threats of being bombed. Clearly, when the district sessions courts in Faridkot, Moga, Ferozepur, Rupnagar, Mansa, Mohali, and Anandpur Sahib in Punjab received these threats, the courts were evacuated. Panic spread, and work came to a standstill. Hundreds of police officers and dog squads, along with bomb disposal teams, searched every nook and cranny.They found nothing there, but the terrorists had already succeeded in their dangerous act of terrorizing the judicial system. In other states too, threatening messages were received via email in several districts. These included threats of suicide attacks using RDX-based IEDs. Such threats were received in Rajnandgaon, Bilaspur, and Durg in Chhattisgarh. A threatening email was sent to the Rewa district court in Madhya Pradesh. The civil court in Patna received an email threatening to bomb it. In Odisha, officials in several courts, including the High Court, received anonymous emails. In Kerala, when a threat was received about a bomb being planted in the Kasaragod district court, the premises were evacuated and searched. Of course, nothing was found in the places that were searched and thoroughly scoured. But the profound psychological impact of these threats is undeniable. People fear that this time the bombs weren’t planted after the threats were made, but what will happen if bombs are planted later without any prior warning? The only solution is to eliminate the terrorist sources issuing these threats.