The Cricket Association of Bengal received a bomb threat mail during the KKR vs CSK match at Kolkata's Eden Gardens on Wednesday, May 7. The mail from an unknown ID was detected in the official email of the CAB during the ongoing match.
The investigation is underway with the police looking into the matter, while the security at the Eden Gardens has been beefed up. The match was the first one to be played in the IPL after Operation Sindhoor, the precision strikes which were launched in response to last month's terror attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir on May 7.
On Wednesday, India struck nine terror camps linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Hizbul Mujahideen. The government clarified that the targets were strictly non-military and said the strikes were "measured, focused, and non-escalatory."
"India has demonstrated considerable restraint in the selection of targets and method of execution," read an official statement.
Ahead of the game, the CSK and KKR players, along with the BCCI, honoured the Indian armed forces’ ‘Operation Sindoor.’ The national anthem was played at the ground ahead of the game as the players lined up near the boundary line ahead of the game.
