In the extension of lohardaga Tori railway line, two major incidents were caused by Maoists within last 36 hours. The first incident took place in evening of April 22 at 9 pm in Moti bricks kiln where the labourers were beaten by the Maoists and were released on threat of stopping the work. The second incident took place on April 24 when the Maoists set the police picket and the machines on fire.
According to the sources, about 50 Maoists in uniform with arms came to the police picket of Ghor Dhokha nala. They ruined the police picket and made the labourers engaged in the construction work run away. They set ablaze three mixture machines, a tractor, a generator and two vibrator machines of Royal Company. The constructors had to suffer a loss of `10 lakhs.
On getting the information of the incident, SDPO SA Rijwi, asst commandant of CRPF AK Pandey, and in-charge of the police station,Kudu Vinod Kumar, reached the site and took information of the situation. The SDPO said that the police forces have been deputed for the election duties and therefore, the Maoists took the advantages of the situation.
The search operation will be on. Notably, the railway extension work is to be completed till 2015. But the Naxalism has become the main obstruction in the work. For lohardaga to Tori, a distance of 15 Km had been started in 2005. Since then the Government had to suffer a loss of crores.