Maoists on Thursday set afire a railway station, attacked a police station and blew up six mobile phone towers at different places to enforce a bandh to protest the arrest of their leader Jagdish Master in Bihar's Gaya district.

"Maoists attacked Kothi police station and blasted six mobile phone towers at different places to enforce the bandh called by the ultras," city superintendent of police Ratnamani Sanjeev said.

"Heavily armed Maoist cadre attacked the police station early today but alert policemen fired 150 rounds to chase them away," he said, adding no casualty was reported in the exchange of fire between the securitymen and Maoists

According to a report from Jehanabad, over 25 ultras stormed Nadaul Railway Station on Patna-Gaya section of East Central Railway in the wee hours, held the railway employees including a station master captive for some time and torched the booking counter, files and control panel.

The train services on the route was disrupted for more than 4 hours and resumed this morning after repair.

The ultras blasted two mobile phone towers at Imamganj bazaar in Gaya district, the police said.

Maoists also blew up two towers one at Diburiya and another in Dobhi, Sanjeev said.

A combing operation has been launched in the area to arrest the ultras.

Maoists have called 24-hour shut down in Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh to protest the arrest of their leader Jagdish Master alias Jagdish Yadav.

The top Maoists leader, carrying a cash reward of Rs 2 lakh on his head, was arrested from Gurua in Gaya district a couple of days ago.

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A self-styled sub-zonal commander of the proscribed CPI (Maoists) was arrested from Kachanpur village under Barun police station in Bihar's Aurangabad district today, DIG (Magadh Range) Umesh Kumar said.

Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided the village and captured Ram Swaroop Yadav alias Vikas Yadav who carrying a cash reward of Rs 50,000 on his head, Kumar said.

He was wanted in connection with around 48 criminal cases, including those related attack on police stations, loot of police rifles, besides murder and kidnapping.

Five kg explosive materials, a country-made pistol and several naxal literature were seized from him, he said.