Bihar Jails Put on High Alert Fearing Naxal Attacks
Patna: July 6, 2007
The state government has put all jails in Bihar on high alert following reports of ultra left wing Communist extremists planning Jehanabad-like attack on a number of state penitentiaries to free their incarcerated leaders after the Bihar police foiled two of their attacks in the last few days.
Sandeep Paundrik, IG Prisons, said there were substantial reasons to believe that the Maoists were planning a large-scale seize operation on the line of Jehanabad jail break of 2005 in which several prison officials were killed and over 300 inmates escaped.
All District Magistrates (DMs) and Superintendent of Police (SPs) have been directed to remain on high alert and enhance security at all jails in their districts particularly in the Naxalite-ridden areas like Gaya, Jamui, Nawada, Jehanabad, Motihari, and Begusarai.
Earlier last Wednesday, at a high-level meeting of the state's top bureaucrats and police officials, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar directed the administration to use all possible means to check the growing Naxal violence in Bihar that continues to embarrass the Nitish government for its failure to contain it.
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