Jehanabad jail break

Maoist insurgency in Bihar, India Jahanabad prison attack also known as 2005 Jahanabad jail break incident Incident [ ] On 13 November 2005, late in the evening, the Naxalites entered the town of A band of Maoists, in the vicinity of prison, moved towards the nearby locality announcing the people to stay inside their houses. On Prashashan). Around 9:05 P.M, a bomb was exploded, which was the call to start the operation. The attack was simultaneously made on the police line (the official accommodation provided to the Jahanabad was surrounded by The jail was also suffering from manpower crunch, and when the Maoists attacked it, they started searching for their cadres and leaders incarcerated here. They were successful in finding On 11 December 2005, 269 prisoners among those who escaped, returned to the jail, but the 60-70 hardcore criminals, which included supporters and cadres of Situation before attack [ ] The problem of overburdening in the Indian Yaha ka sara Janata hi ugarwadi hai (Here everyone is a terrorist). Bhatia has also described that how the state administration during those days used to participate in Senas (Private armies) of the landlords. The incident of prison break and selective targeting of the members of Ranvir Sena resulted in chances of reprisal by latter. Hence, in the aftermath of this event, it was thought that the relative peace that was prevalent for few years due to dormancy of caste based Senas may break as a response to killing of leading com...

An active member of outlawed Ranvir Sena, a private militia of upper caste landlords, Chandan Sharma was arrested on Friday, police said. HT Image Sharma had escaped from Jehanabad sub-jail during last year Naxalites attack on the jail. He was arrested from Sabdalpur village of Jehanabad district. Police said altogether 372 inmates had escaped from Jehanabad jail during Naxalites attack on November 13 last year. While 205 prisoners surrendered, 52 prisoners were arrested and 105 inmates were still at large, police said.

PATNA: In view of the 8 thanniversary of Jehanabd jail break, the government has asked the superintendents of all the model, central, divisional and district jails across A home department spokesman said special deployment of forces has been ensured at railway stations, railway tracks, railway over bridges and all the sensitive places and the DMs and SPs have been advised to direct the police to keep close vigil. The intelligence wing and special branch of the police have intimated the police headquarters that the Maoists may indulge in violence to mark the jail break anniversary on November 13. One of the top Maoist leaders Ajay Kanu alias Ravi Kanu, who was of the jail break, is now languishing in Beur model jail in Patna. The intelligence has expressed apprehension that Maoists may target Beur jail to free Kanu who is facing over 17 criminal cases and the hearing is likely to start inside the prison for which a has already been designated. The home department has specially directed the SPs and DMs of Naxal infested districts like Jamui, Munger, Aurngabad, Jehanabad and Gaya to launch combing operations. The divisional railway manger of Danapur, Mughalsarai and Sonepur have been asked to enforce strict vigil and step up security measures. On the night of November 13, 2005, when assembly election was underway in Bihar, over a thousand Maoists had attacked Jehanabad jail and got their 130 comrades freed. Altogether 375 prisoners had escaped but majority of them had returne...

The Historic Jehanabad Jail Break Volume 6, No. 11, December. 2005 Editorial The Historic Jehanabad Jail Break The 88th anniversary of the October Revolution was celebrated in India by the historic Jehanabad jail break. It was an action of unprecedented significance in the Indian revolutionary movement. Together with the Koraput armoury raid this will become folk lore in the days to come. As the full details are yet to come out we only have the confused reporting of the establishment media that seeks to hide more than give the full facts. The attack began at about 9 pm on Nov.13th soon after the completion of the days polling in another part of Bihar’s third stage of voting for the assembly elections. The media has reported that about 1,000 comrades launched an attack on Jehanabad from all sides. The simultaneous attack took place on the Police Lines, police stations, government offices and then the jail. The attack continued for about two to three hours. It was first reported that the Naxalites seized over 200 arms from the police lines and then by the attack on the jail some 341 persons escaped with the retreating Maoists. These included senior leaders like Ajay Kanu. In addition the revolutionaries killed two of the ring leaders of the notorious Ranvir Sena (army of the Bhoomihar landlords) and took another 40 captive. Though the area around Jehanabad is fully plain and there are no forests or hills in the vicinity the revolutionaries were able to launch the attack and ...

Ranchi, Dec. 16: Latehar police today claimed to have arrested one of the conspirators behind Jehanabad jailbreak case today. Naveen Ji alias Chotu Das alias Satish Ji was arrested at the Sartand forest, around 120km from the city. Latehar superintendent of police, Ravikant Dhan, said the breakthrough came about this morning when the extremist was heading towards Kurjrum on a bike to work for the Kisan Bachao Rally. He was caught with pamphlets and Naxalite literature. “Our operation started on December 14. Our team had intercepted a motorbike this morning on a tip-off and after a brief inquiry it was learnt that the pillion rider was a sub-zonal commander of the rebel group. The team also recovered six detonators and Rs 3,100, besides Naxalite literature. Later, we identified him as Naveen Ji,” Dhan said. The SP further said that the sub-zonal commander was transferred about three months ago and during his presence in Bihar had participated in several encounters with the police and had also thrown challenges to police officials at Chouparan, Wasirganj and Mohanpur areas. “He is very close to Ajay Kanu, who masterminded the Jehanabad jailbreak and is in custody at present,” he added. Sources, however, said the Naxalite leader was arrested two days ago but the information was not made public. “The police have disclosed the facts after extracting all the information from the extremist,” he said. Jehanabad SP Manu Maharaj said Naveen Ji was wanted in Bihar. Over 500 Maoists h...

PATNA: How did the The author, Amar Nath Jha, is not a Maoist. A native of Madhubani district, this 33-year-old Delhi University graduate is in fact serving a life term in a case of kidnapping and murder of a junior student. “Though `Red Action: The Inside Story of Naxalites’ offers a fictionalised account of the incident, it is based on facts gathered in course of my interaction with top Maoist leaders inside the jail,” he says. The book also gives a detailed account of how a small group of Maoists carried out a recce of the Jehanabad town to provide inputs to the cadres who were undergoing a special training in the Saranda forests to carry out the jailbreak operation. They used a coded system of words. “The jail was code-named Krishna temple, Police Lines Hanuman temple and CRPF camp was called the small Hanuman temple in their parlance,” the book says and adds the mission itself was referred to as `establishment of idols’. “I wanted to exhibit my creativity in the best possible way despite limitations of the life inside a jail. And the inputs from Maoist inmates helped me get near the truth about the jailbreak and other aspects of Naxal movement in the country,” Jha told TOI. The author, through his Delhi-based lawyer Naushad Alam, has also applied for copyright registration of the book. “I applied to the New Delhi-based registrar (copyright) ten days back,” Alam told TOI over phone on Monday. Jha said efforts would be made soon to get the book published. “The royalty m...

An alert by the Intelligence Bureau has sent the Beur jail administration near Patna in a tizzy. The IB has warned that some prisoners in the jail might be planning a major jailbreak. Following the input, the Bihar Police on Wednesday night stepped up security around the jail and launched search operations inside the premises. What adds to the worries of the police administration in the state is the fact that several dreaded criminals and terrorists are lodged inside Beur jail. Terrorists who carried out serial blasts at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan in 2013 are also inside the prison. Notably, a Naxalite named Ajay Kanu, who is the prime accused in infamous Jehanabad jail break case of 2005, is also serving a sentence inside the Beur jail. The Jehanabad jail break was planned from inside the prison and carried out successfully on November 13, 2005. Apart from Kanu, several terrorists such as Umar Siddiqui, Azharuddin, Imtiaz Ansari, Ahmed Hussain, Fakhruddin Ahmed, Feroz Alam, Noman Ansari, Iftekhar Alam, Haidar Ali and Mujibullah. The threat of Beur jailbreak reminds of the Jehanabad jailbreak incident wherein Naxals had planned and carried out an attack to make Kanu escape from the prison. He was wanted by police departments of several states, including Bihar, Jharkhand, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. Having a bounty of Rs 5 lakh on his head, Kanu was arrested more than a decade back while he was on his way from Dhanbad to Kolkata.

An Intelligence Bureau (IB) team arrived from New Delhi on Saturday to interrogate Ajay Kanu alias Ravi, the alleged mastermind behind Jehanabad jailbreak incident. Kanu was arrested on Friday. The team headed by an SP-rank officer visited the Bureau's office in Danapur area and quizzed Kanu for several hours. HT Image The Bihar police officials have not yet been informed about Kanu's arrest. "Since he is wanted by the police of five states, including Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa, we are trying to elicit information about extremist operation from him," said a senior IB official on condition of anonymity. The official said Kanu is a hard nut to crack. "Most of the time, he tried to divert the attention of the interrogators by disclosing irrelevant things about the organisational set up of the outfit," he said. The arrested CPI (Maoist) leader revealed to the IB officials how the Jehanabad operation was planned from inside the prison and carried out successfully on November 13, 2005. Kanu, who is carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakh on his head, fell into police net when he along with two women activists was on way to Kolkata from Dhanbad in Jharkhand. Sources said that he boarded the train at Gomo railway station under Dhanbad railway division and was taken into custody midway. The arrest of Kanu is being viewed as a major setback to the outfit. "He is a prize catch for the police," the IB official said, adding that the Bureau was keeping a close tab on his activit...

Eleven Maoists, including the prime accused of the Jehanabad jail-break incident, were arrested in Bihar's Gaya district during combing operations early on Monday morning, police sources said. The police arrested 11 Maoists including the elusive Sanjay Yadav, who was involved in Jehanabad jail-break in November 2005, from a village under Atri police station in Gaya. Police sources in Gaya told rediff.com over phone that, the Maoists were arrested when they gathered in a village to 'chalk out their plan for next attack.' "After an intelligence report, a police team raided the village and arrested the Maoists, along with country-made pistols, guns and ammunition" a police official said. Gaya and its neighbouring districts of Aurangabad, Jehanabad and Arwal are regarded as a stronghold of the Maoists. In rural Bihar, complaints of extortion by the rebels during construction and development work are common, and often lead to projects being stalled.