Maoists give bandh call in three states

Posted at Friday, 21 September 2007 13:09 IST Latehar/Chatra (Jharkhand), Sep 21: The outlawed CPI-Maoist on Thursday called a 24-hour bandh in Jharkhand, Bihar and Chhattisgarh to protest against the arrest of one of its top leaders, Tushar Kant Bhattacharya alias Srikant, and another cadre.

Statements by the Maoists on this were spotted at Latehar and Chatra, reports said.

Bhattacharya, probably the biggest catch this year for police, and his associate were nabbed by a special task force in Patna on Tuesday.

He is the accused in a number of cases registered in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Dehi, Bihar and Chhattisgarh.

He is the chief of the group's "Triple U" unit that operates in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttar (North) Bihar and a member of the international department of the South Asian forum of Naxalite organisations.

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