In a broad daylight operation, suspected cadres of the Communist
Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)
on June 20 abducted 19 railway
employees, including a station
master, in Jamui District,
reports The Indian Express.
They later released all of
them. The armed Maoists, numbering
about 20, took the railway
employees hostage when they
were repairing railway tracks,
three kilometres from Ghorparan
station located between Jasidih
and Simultala stations on
Jhajha-Jasidih section, Simultala
station master R N P Yadav
said. The extremists took
all the railway employees
to a nearby forest where they
released 16 of them, including
section engineer Soren Manjhi
and Permanent Way Inspector
Bhuvaneshwar Manda, he said.
Three other railway employees,
Ghorparan station master Vijay
Kumar and porters Munna Kumar
and Dukhan Mahto, were released
later by the Maoists, an Eastern
Railway release said in Kolkata.
Meanwhile, Police arrested a Maoist ‘sub-zonal commander’ from
Ranjita hills area in Gaya
District, reports PTI.
Acting on a tip off, Police
arrested Vinod Paswan alias
Mukaddarji alias Baban
Paswan from a hideout near
Ranjita hills, Superintendent
of Police (SP), City, Baburam
said. |
