Railway services under Mugalsarai divison of East Central Railway came to halt after the ultras blew up the track under Mohammadgunj police station.
Rail services between Garwah road and Sonnagar Route was disrupted after CPI (Maoists) blew up the up and down tracks near Kosiyara railway station during the 24-hour Palamu division bandh called by them today.
Railway services under Mugalsarai divison of East Central Railway came to halt after the ultras blew up the track under Mohammadgunj police station in Palamu district last night, DIG(Palamu) Prasant Singh said today.
Singh said adequate police force has been sent to the spot and the repair work to restore the damaged tracks was going on on war-footing.
He said railway services were likely to be restored soon.
The CPI (Maoists) has called for bandh in extremist-hit Palamu division comprising Palamu, Latehar and Garwah districts in protest against alleged custodial death of Rajendra Yadav, a murder accused, on December 31 last.
Earlier, Rajendra Yadav was arrested by the police from Chatarpur police station on December 30 last and rushed to Sadar hospital a day after but the doctors declared him brought dead.
The family members alleged police high handedness as the cause behind Yadav's death.
Yadav's post-mortem was conducted twice after the family members made a hue and cry at the hospital. Meanwhile, the Jharkhand government has ordered a probe into the alleged custodial death of Yadav and formed a two committee team headed by Murarilal Meena, DIG (special branch).
The team had visited Palamu and examined the family members as well as jail authorities in this regard yesterday.
The team, which included NN Pandey, energy secretary of Jharkhand, would submit its report to the state government soon.
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