High alert has been sounded in all the police stations of steel and coal belt of the State and beefed up security arrangements seeing 24-hour bandh called by the outlawed CPI (Maoist) in Jharkhand and Bihar.Bokaro police senior officials, has asked the officer in-charges especially of Nawadih, Gomia, Bokaro thermal and Petarwar police stations which are still the strong zone of Naxalites and time and again the Maoists try to disturb the normal life in this zone.
“We are deciding either to re-route or to cancel few trains to avoid plying through Naxal infested zones across the State due to bandh call as more than 80 per cent of railway stations in Jharkhand fall in Maoist-infested zone,” said a railway official.