Jehanabad

Krishna Murari Kishan/Reuters Jashiya Devi, 80, got some help getting to her polling station in Jehanabad in Bihar.

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After the attack on Jehanabad jail in Bihar, the State government shifted most of the Maoist prisoners to high security central prisons.

AP would thwart Moists attempts : Jana Reddy Abhay N 2007

In Bihar, shops were closed and buses were off the roads in rural parts of Arwal, Jehanabad and Gaya districts as well as a few pockets in Patna district.

Maoist Economic Blockade a huge success Abhay N 2007

Besides touching upon their future plan, Maoists also listed their successful operations, which included the Jehanabad jailbreak in Bihar, killing of 11 Naga jawans and attack on Salva Judum camps in Chhattisgarh, killing of 14 cops in West Singbhum in Jharkhand and attack on Malkangiri-Udaigiri jail in Orissa.

Naxal annual report reveals plans Abhay N 2007

On November 13, 2005, about 1,000 Maoists and their supporters attacked Jehanabad jail in Bihar and released a large number of Naxal prisoners.

AP would thwart Moists attempts : Jana Reddy Abhay N 2007

A witness in Jehanabad says that the armed group entered the village Monday evening and announced their intention to destroy the Buddha.

Pakistan's Heritage at Risk 2007

Local residents sit near a defaced Buddha after Islamic extremists attacked the historic sculpture at Jehanabad in Pakistan's Swat Valley.

Pakistan's Heritage at Risk 2007

These include the attack on the Jehanabad jail, where Naxals freed around 340 prisoners including Naxal leader Ajay Kanu, the slaying of the MP Sunil Mahato besides the attack on a police camp in Bastar where they mowed down 56 policemen.

Sixty years of independence, 38 per cent of the country up in flames Abhay N 2007

On Monday, October 8, dynamite was used to obliterate the face of a of 23-foot-high seventh-century seated Buddha carved into a rock face near the village of Jehanabad in the Swat Valley.

Pakistan's Heritage at Risk 2007

In an attack that vaguely resembled the Jehanabad jailbreak operation of November 2005, on March 31, 2007, hundreds estimates vary between 200 to 500 of suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist CPI-Maoist led simultaneous attacks on a police station, a block office and a branch of the Central Bank of India at Riga in Bihar's Sitamarhi district bordering Nepal, 300 kilometres from capital Patna.

The Enduring Shock Abhay N 2007