Amritsar, June 6 -- Posters displaying Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale were distributed at the Akal Takht Sahib in Amritsar on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of Operation Blue Star.

Bhindranwale was the head of the radical Sikh outfit Damdami Taksal. He, along with his armed followers, was killed during Operation Blue Star, launched by the Indian Army to flush out the militants from the Golden Temple complex in June 1984.

Pro-Khalistan slogans were also raised at the Akal Takht Sahib, as the people present here remembered Bhindarwale on his death anniversary on Saturday.

Punjab Police has heightened the security outside the Golden Temple.

ADCP Vishaljit Singh said, "We have made elaborate security arrangements for June 6, checkpoints...