Maoists blow up rail tracks in Bihar

Armed Maoists blasted railway track near Nadaul station in Bihar's Jehanabad district in the wee hours on Monday, disrupting rail traffic for several hours, police said.

Around 50 ultras stormed into the southern cabin of the station at around 0200 hrs and asked the railway employees to vacate it before disconnecting telephones and blowing up the railway track, they said. Rail traffic was disrupted for several hours on the Patna-Jehanabad-Gaya section.

Raids were on in the area to apprehend the Maoists, who left a pamphlet on the spot demanding immediate production of their leader Divendu Kumar Singh alias Subodh alias Anand before a court, police said. Subodh was arrested by the special task force of Bihar police in Jehanabad on January 15.