The Naxal raid on the Jhajha railway station in Bihar which left six persons dead on Sunday is part of a wider plan by the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) to target government infrastructure across the country, including railways, dams, roads and national highways. This, the Maoist leadership believes, will not only unsettle the state but fast track their own plans for a “people’s revolution”.

Sources in security agencies today said they learnt of the Maoist plans after they managed to crack the hard disk code of a laptop recovered from Malti alias K S Priya, wife of senior Maoist leader and Dandakaranya special zonal committee spokesperson Vijay Reddy alias Gudsa Usendi. Malti was arrested by the Chhattisgarh Police in January this year.

Sources said that the Maoist plans, also disclosed by several arrested cadres, have been documented in detail on the hard disk.

“The data analysed from the disk includes details of railway infrastructure, national highways, bridges, dams, mining operations and plans of private and public sector industries in the tribal dominated areas of Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Jharkhand (the stretch of the Red Corridor where the Maoists dominate) and how these sites can be attacked effectively to cause maximum damage. This aims at stopping development in these areas to keep their stranglehold on the population in these backward districts,” the sources said.

Security agencies have been able to unlock the 81 GB hard disk and are presently analysing the data. Sources said they hope to make a major breakthrough in unravelling the Maoist network in the next few months because the laptop recovered from Malti has several “incriminating details and sensitive information”.

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