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of top naxal leaders pending. By doing so, it wanted to give the
Maoists a signal that they are not leveraging their whole power to decimate the existence of Maoists. The government under Kumar was aware of the fact that these Maoists were supported by the lower castes and in case of strict action against them, the lower castes may slide towards extremism, hence they also took steps to bring members of many landlord militia under speedy trial. This step was taken to present a fair image of government to the Maoists.
510:, he was not able to move. It was reported that after his arrest, Police had to face difficulties in taking him into custody, as the villagers, after being informed about arrest of naxal commander, stopped the police and clashes between both sides occur.Reportedly, firing from the sides of villagers in support of naxal commander was also done, to which police also retaliated by counter attack. Another accused of prison break, Shankar Rajak also known as 'Baba' died in
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Jahanabad district, Sunil Kumar was suspended by government of Bihar, for his failure to prevent the naxal onslaught. According to contemporary news reports, Bihar Home Secretary HC Sirohi had informed SP about possible attack by the extremists earlier, despite this, the district administration
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took immediate steps to obtain conviction from many of the
Maoists. Between 2007-2009, a total of 109 Maoists were convicted. The speedy trial mechanism was followed by the government to settle many cases related to Maoist activities. However, top naxal leaders like Ajay Kanu were an exception to
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took place in 1997. Many a times, police also acted in connivance with the upper caste militia, killing Dalits. Hence, there existed accumulated anger among the people against the state administration. The administration also viewed people with suspicion. While discussing about this 'prison break
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The dead body of the leading member of Ranvir Sena in prison infuriated a section of 'landed gentry'. There was a demonstration on the streets of
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has described the hobnobbing between prison administration and influential criminals, who manage to get into private wards of local government hospitals on the basis of fake medical certificates, living a life of luxury even while serving a sentence. Bhatia interviewed a
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with them. By next day morning, a total of 389 prisoners had escaped. It was reported that majority of them were petty criminals and they had escaped just to save themselves as they thought that the
Maoists were planning to explode the prison altogether.
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elections being conducted in the state and lack of elected government in power, the state machinery was involved in conducting the elections in free and fair manner. The
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prisoners; only 30 out of all inmates were convicted during the attack. It is also reported that there also existed discrimination between the prisoners on the basis of
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rushed over thousand paramilitary personnels to Bihar, after the incident, and a plan to airdrop the security forces was formulated.
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was found and immediately killed by the Maoists; they also killed another member of Sena, Biseswar Rai, soon after it. According to
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for speedy trial in those cases. As a result of it, sixteen members of Ranvir Sena were sentenced to death in connection with
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to Patna's Beur Jail, for medical treatment. According to his medical reports, he died of kidney failure.
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