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Centre in touch with Chhattisgarh Govt on Maoist kidnapping: Home Secretary | Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh on Monday said the Centre is providing all support to the Chhattisgarh
Government for the safe release of Sukma Collector Alex Paul Menon. "We have been in touch with the state government. Whatever support they are asking for is being
given and will be given," he told media here. The Union Home Secretary's remarks
came a day after the Maoists demanded the release of eight of their jailed leaders
in Chhattisgarh and a halt to 'Operation Green Hunt' in exchange for release of
Menon. Meanwhile, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Dr. Raman Singh has convened a high-level
meeting in Raipur today to decide on the future course of action in wake of the
new demands put by the ultras for the Collector's safe release. Chhattisgarh Government
has set up a cabinet sub-committee to deal with the situation arising out of Menon's
abduction by the Maoists. The four-member committee will look into all aspects
of the issue that may lead to the safe and early release of Menon. The committee
will have State Home Minister Nankiram Kanwar, Public Construction Minister Brij
Mohan Agrawal, SC/ST Welfare Minister Kedar Kashyap and Water Resources Minsiter
Ram Bichar Netam as its members. The decision to set up the committee was taken
at an emergency meeting chaired by Chief Minister Dr. Raman Singh last night.
The Naxals have demanded the release of their eight colleagues: Markam Gopanna
alias Satyam Reddy, Nirmal Akka alias Vijay Laxmi, Devpal Chandrashekhar Reddy,
Shantipriya Reddy, Meena Choudhari, Korsa Sunny, Markam Sunny and Asit Kumar Sen.
The ultras also want anti-Naxal Operation Green Hunt to be cancelled, security
forces to be withdrawn from the region and persons against whom "fake cases" have
been registered, released from the jails. In an audacious daylight operation,
Maoist rebels on Saturday abducted Alex Paul Menon from the middle of a meeting
with villagers. Menon, an IAS officer of 2006 batch, was kidnapped from Majhipara
village in Keralapal area of the Naxal-infected district. The Sukma district collector's
kidnapping comes even as uncertainty continues over the fate of ruling BJD MLA
Jhina Hikaka in neighbouring Odisha who was abducted by the Maoists about a month
ago. Menon is the first collector of the newly-created Sukma district and was
known to be pro-active in undertaking development work in the backward region. |
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