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GAYA, INDIA, January 7, 2002: Naxalites of the banned Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) blew up a mutt (religious institution) at Khajbati village, about 15 km from Gaya. Police said the ultras attacked the mutt late on Sunday night and demolished part of it with dynamite. Later, they set fire to a jeep belonging to the institution. The head of the institution Mahanth Laxmanand Giri, who was severely beaten up, was admitted to a government hospital in Gaya in a serious condition. Police said the desperadoes also decamped with the cash chest of the mutt. No arrest has so far been made in connection with the incident. The Naxalites are communists who often engage in violent encounters with the police in a region of India across Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and parts of Tamil Nadu. Its members are called Naxalites after the eastern Indian town of Naxalbari, where their movement originated in 1967.

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