Bihar: Maoists go on rampage

Patna/Ranchi
Oct. 12: A day after the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, reiterated that Maoists were India’s greatest internal security threat, the ultra-left extremists went on a rampage across Bihar and Jharkhand on Monday, killing two coal mine managers and destroying railway tracks as well as other public and private property.
In neighbouring West Bengal, a Jharkhand Party leader who was kidnapped late on Sunday night, allegedly by Maoists, was found murdered early on Monday. The main railway link between New Delhi and Ranchi was disrupted due to the blowing up of railway tracks.
Members of the outlawed CPI(Maoist), whose two-day shutdown in five states including Bihar and Jharkhand started on Monday, are believed to have shot dead an executive director of Panem Coal Co. Ltd, Dinanath Sharan, as well as the private company’s assistant mines manager, Sheetal Prasad, in Jharkhand’s Pakur at about 5.30 am on Monday while the two were out on a morning walk.
Meanwhile, in West Bengal, a Jharkhand Party member, Ananda Mahato, was abducted by Maoists from Kulabheda village. Both were members of the anti-Maoist “Maobadi Protirodh Committee,” the police said.
Jharkhand bore the brunt of the violence during the shutdown. The CPI(Maoist) rebels blew up a part of a railway track at Jharandih in Dhanbad district.
The Maoists also burnt down three trucks at Isri in Jharkhand’s Giridih district and damaged a bridge connecting Dumri to the Grand Trunk Road. Maoists also attacked a bus, injuring three passengers. In Bihar, the rebels blew up a mobile phone tower of a private telecom company by using dynamite at Salaiya village in Aurangabad district.
Source::DC