Security tightened in Maoists infected areas as rebels' call bandh

Bhubaneswar(visakeo): All Maoists infected police stations across the State were put on maximum alert in view of a 48-hour bandh called by CPI (Maoists) in Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand West Bengal from Monday to protest the violence at Nandigram mayhem. According to Home Department sources here, zonal IGs, DIGs and Superintendents of Police had been asked to maintain extra vigil on the activities of the Maoists with additional security measures have been taken at bordering areas with West Bengal and Jharkhand. The officials been asked to beef up security around vital Government installations and public places, especially at railway stations and bus depots which could be soft targets of the Maoists during the bandh, highly placed sources involved in anti-Maoists operation said. Additional forces had been deployed in the affected districts as a precautionary measure, he added.