17 Maoists arrested in Bihar

Hajipur, Apr 30 (UNI) At least 17 CPI (Maoist) cadres were arrested in Sadar police station area in Vaishali district late last night in a special combing operation following the Maoist attack on a bank and a police station at Jandaha area recently.

DIG (Tirhut range) Gupteshwar Pandey said today that the Maoists were wanted in connection with several incidents engineered by the extremists. Of the arrested ultras, 15 were from Thathan Mohalla while two people were from Subhai Mohalla, under the Sadar police station of the district.

Officials of the special branch of the state police were interrogating the arrested comrades, he added.

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