Amid the latest intelligence reports regarding the Maoist attack inputs, security has been tightened in prisons and police stations in Bihar. Intelligence agencies have been alerted in this regard and precautionary action has been taking.
According to Additional Director General of Police Ravinder Kumar, the step has been taken after intelligence agencies alerted. Maoists are likely to attack these places in their strongholds, their security has been tightened, he added.
According to police, the likely targets could be prisons in Patna, Muzaffarpur and Bhagalpur districts.
Dozens of Maoists, including senior leaders, are lodged in Patna's Beur Jail and in the central jails in Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur.
"Maoists may target these prisons to free their members," said a police official.
Similarly, all police stations located near jails have also been put on high alert after intelligence reports cited the alleged attack plans of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist.
It is noted that Bihar saw a major jailbreak in November 2005 when as many as 380 prisoners fled from the Jehanabad prison. Later, nearly 300 returned to the jail or were re-arrested.
(With inputs from IANS)
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