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In another incident, around 30-40 Maoists set afire eleven dumpers at Chuna Ghati. They also blocked NH-125 by feeling trees.
Security has been tightened in Naxalite-affected areas to keep a vigil to ensure that no untoward incident takes place.
The Maoists had called the bandh in Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chattisgarh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and three districts in Maharastra -- Gadchiroli, Chadrapur, Gondia, the districts of Uttar Pradesh bordering Bihar and Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh to protest the recent arrest of seven members, including three central committee members from Bihar.
On April 29, seven ultras were arrested from Barsoi village in Katihar district in Bihar by central and state intelligence agencies of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Chattisgarh, a Maoist Central Committee statement had claimed.
Demanding their release, the statement had said the three Central Committee members arrested were Pulendu Sekhar Mukherjee alias Sahed Da, Varanasi Subramaniyam alias Srikant, Vijay Kumar Arya alias Jaspalji, Secretary of Uttar Pradesh-Bihar.