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Maoists damage BSNL towers in Kisko
RANCHI: Maoists damaged two BSNL mobile towers at Kisko block in Lohardaga on Thursday disrupting telecommunications link in the district. Ranchi DIG Arun Kumar Singh said cadres of the CPI(Maoist), which called 24-hour Jharkhand-Bihar-Chhattisgarh bandh on Thursday to protest against the “fake encounter” of top leader Shivnandan Bhagat, blew up a mobile tower and torched another late on Wednesday night. “Police recovered a powerful explosive device from the site in the morning (Thursday),” Singh said. Kisko, which centrally located in Lohardaga, is one of the core areas of Maoist activities in the district.
Though the bandh hardly had any effect in the urban areas, it led to near shutdown in rural pockets in Gumla, where the “fake encounter” took place on July 25, and other Maoist-hit districts. Transport of minerals was affected. A police report said transportation of iron ore from West Singhbhum, bauxite from Lohardaga and coal from Bokaro, Ranchi and Ramgarh was disrupted. Operation at Upper Pat and Serangdag mines in Gumla came to a standstill due to the bandh. Over 600 bauxite-laden trucks did not ply. However, government offices and educational institutions were open. The national highways were patrolled extensively, but security was lax around the state highways.
“State highways through Giridih, Dhanbad, Dumka, Latehar, Chatra, Palamu and Maoist-hit districts were blocked on Wednesday night, but roads were cleared in the morning,” said a person who was travelling from Ranchi to Giridih. Inter-district buses did not ply and only a few long-route buses were spotted at night leaving hundreds of passengers stranded.DGP D K Pandey said police had made elaborate security arrangement ahead of Maoist bandh that was announced by the Maoists’ Bihar-Jharkhand Special Area Committee a week before. It however had a mixed impact in Dhanbad and Giridih. “The bandh passed off peacefully,” Giridih SP Kuldeep Dwivedi said. Dwivedi elaborate security arrangements were made in Bihar-Jharkhand border areas of which Giridih is a part.

The CPI(Maoist) has alleged that police killed Sylvester, who was the secretary of Bihar Jharkhand North Chhatisgarh special area committee of the rebel outfit and had a cash reward of Rs 25 lakh on his head, in cold-blood when he was unarmed and sleeping and there was no encounter as claimed by the police.