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Chhattisgarh slows down anti-Maoist drive
till Menon's release
Monday April 23, 2012 03:03:02 PM,
IANS
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Raipur:
The Chhattisgarh government has virtually called a halt to its
anti-Maoist offensive till Sukma District Collector Alex Paul
Menon is released from captivity, official sources said Monday.
"The whole focus is now to secure the safe and early release of
Alex Paul Menon. The anti-Maoist operation issue can follow later
on," a senior official at the police headquarters here told IANS.
The Maoists have demanded freeze on Operation Green Hunt against
them and the release of eight of their jailed colleagues in
exchange for Menon, whom they took hostage Saturday.
Menon, 32, a 2006 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
officer, was kidnapped at gunpoint from a forested location, some
500 km south from here, when he was interacting with tribals. The
Maoists killed his two guards when they resisted his abduction.
"The state government is considering the Maoists' demands very
sympathetically but it will take a final call on the matter taking
the central government and the state's political parties into
total confidence," sources in the home department said.
The state government has also formed a five-member team headed by
Chief Minister Raman Singh to look into Maoists' demands. The team
includes Public Works Department Minister Brijmohan Agrawal, Water
Resources Minister Ramvichar Netam, Home Minister Nankiram Kanwar
and Tribal Welfare Minister Kedar Kashyap.
Maoists late Sunday said in a message taped anonymously that
Chhattisgarh's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) regime must free their
colleagues - Marakam Gopannam, Nirmal Akka, Devpal Chandra Shekher
Reddy, Shanti Priya Reddy, Meena Chowdhary, Korasa Sunny, Markan
Sunny and Asit Kumar Sen - by April 25 in exchange for the
kidnapped district collector.
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