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Chhattisgarh Government intensifies efforts to free abducted Sukma Collector | The Chhattisgarh Government has intensified efforts to free Sukma District
Collector Alex Paul Menon from Maoists captivity. In this connection, the first
round of talks between the state government and Maoists mediators-- Nirmala Buch,
S.K.Mishra Dr. B.D. Sharma and Professor Hargopal was held here yesterday. Both
sides described the over three-hour long talks as positive. Legal experts also
assisted in the deliberations, officials said. Before the meeting, a special emissary
who had handed over medicines to the 32-year-old IAS officer, an asthma patient,
described his condition as stable. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Raman Singh said
the abductors demands would be considered only within the legal framework. The
Naxals have demanded the release of 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be withdrawn from the region and persons against whom they allege "fake cases"
have been registered, released from the jails. In an audacious operation, Maoist
rebels on Saturday abducted Menon, an IAS officer of 2006 batch, from the middle
of a meeting with villagers from Majhipara village in Keralapal area of the Naxal-infected
district. 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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