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Maoists' threat

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HYDERABAD: The CPI (Maoist) has threatened to carry out more Jehanabad-type attacks to secure the release of its cadre from jails in different parts of the country.

A two-page statement issued on Monday in the name of Azad, spokesman of the Central Committee (provisional) of the CPI (Maoist) said hundreds of "comrades" were languishing in Bewoor, Gaya, Buxar, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur, Hazaribagh, Ranchi, Bethia and Bagha jails in Bihar and Jharkhand. Besides, scores were behind bars in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Orissa, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The CPI (Maoist) pledged that its "heroic PLGA guerrillas" under the Central Military Commission would secure their release.

Hailing what it called the "historic politico-military campaign in Jehanabad," the statement narrated the Maoists' "siege" of the town. It claimed that during the two-and-a-half hour long "Operation Jailbreak", about 1,000 men conducted simultaneous raids on the jail and other places, including the district armoury, killed the "State-sponsored Ranaveer Sena" leaders, captured several activists and seized hundreds of rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

These actions, it said, demonstrated the justness of the Maoist cause.

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