{"id":77501,"date":"2017-07-10T19:31:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T14:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=77501"},"modified":"2017-07-10T19:31:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T14:01:18","slug":"shravani-mela-police-escort-pilgrims-maoist-areas-bihar-hindustan-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=77501","title":{"rendered":"Shravani Mela: Police to escort pilgrims in Maoist areas of Bihar | Hindustan Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pilgrims participating in the month-long Shravani Mela beginning Monday will be escorted by the police, while crossing the 11-km Gangta forest stretch, a hardcore Maoist area, in Jamui district.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Naxals have not targeted <i>kanwariyas<\/i> (devotees), incidents of loot and road hold-ups have been common at Laxmipur block in Jamui, prompting the administration to extend security cover to pilgrims along this route. The most recent road hold-up was reported last month, inspector general of police, Bhagalpur zone, Sushil Khopde said.<\/p>\n<p>Maoists had ambushed a CRPF party in Jamui, killing two jawans and injuring four others, during the last Lok Sabha polls in April 2014. Around three months later, a CRPF officer was killed in a gunbattle with Maoists in Jamui.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that KC Surendra Babu, the then superintendent of police, Munger, was killed along with his five body guards in a Maoist landmine blast on January 5, 2005 inside the Bhimbandh wildlife sanctuary area in Munger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilgrims participating in the month-long Shravani Mela beginning Monday will be escorted by the police, while crossing the 11-km Gangta forest stretch, a hardcore Maoist area, in Jamui district. Though the Naxals have not targeted kanwariyas (devotees), incidents of loot and road hold-ups have been common at Laxmipur block in Jamui, prompting the administration to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}