Jehanabad, a district headquarters in Bihar province of India witnessed unprecented scenes as the town’s prison and police lines came under siege of leftist terrorists on Sunday(Nov. 14) evening. The naxalites, as Maoists, left-wing, terrorists are known in India, virtually held sway over the town, forced the prison guards to open the locks of the wards and created a bomb scare in order to make the inmates flee for their lives.



Scores of naxalites in police uniform used a wooden ladder to scale the walls of the prison and once inside, they opened the main entrance of the jail to allow their comrades in.



“The earth under my feet trembled with sounds of huge explosions and gunfire bursts as we were having dinner,” the prisoner, who preferred to stay back instead of fleeing with 341 other inmates, said.



Another inmate who was still inside one of the wards said the CPI (Maoist) rebels first shot dead two sentries and then forced others to open the locks of various wards. One of them had a hand-held loudspeaker and he ordered the prisoners to flee saying they had planted a huge bomb inside the jail which was about to explode, says an undertrial prisoner. Soon utter chaos prevailed in the jail crammed with prisoners who headed for the main entrance and vanished into the darkness amid staccato noise of gunfire.



The extremists then asked the inmates about the whereabouts of Bade Sharma whom they dragged out of the ward and shot dead, an eyewitness said. Bade Sharma was the leader of the Ranvir Sena, another terrorist organisation of the landlords. It was violently opposing the naxalites who were clamouring for land reforms.



The naxalites raised pro-revolution and anti-government and anti-police slogans before leaving.



Sorce: The Hindu