In protest against police action against five Naxalites, who were killed in an encounter that took place in Chatra district the banned CPI Maoist organization has declared a bandh in western Jharkhand and southern Bihar on April 14 and April 15.
The Intelligence Department has issued an alert regarding this. A letter has been sent to the officers of Jharkhand and Bihar Police in this regard. According to the information, it has been told in the letter that the border districts of Jharkhand state especially Gaya, Aurangabad, Nawada, Jamui, Banka are mainly affected by the activities of CPI Maoist organization whereas, there is Maoist activity in Lakhisarai and Munger. The areas of Kiul-Jamalpur, Kiul-Jasidih, Gand Chord Line and GT Road remain sensitive due to the activities of the militants.
The intelligence department informed that the militants will retaliate by setting up police, paramilitary forces, police stations, OPs, pickets, base camps, watchmen, police informers, mobile towers, railway tracks, railway stations, government offices, development works in the area under their influence. They can carry out violent incidents by attacking contractors, their workplaces, their equipment, vehicles, scribes, laborers etc. In this situation, while conducting security audits in militancy-affected districts, take special vigilance and take necessary protective action.
The Naxalite organization pasted a handwritten leaflet in favor of the Bihar-Jharkhand Regional Committee (Maoist) on the electricity transformer located in Raushanganj police station area of Balsot village in Gaya district of Bihar. In which the Naxalites have warned that those who do not keep the bandh will be punished by holding a public court. However, the Naxalites have kept essential items like press, milk and ambulances free during the bandh.