RAIPUR: Missing CoBRA commando Rakeshwar Singh Manhas’s fate is still uncertain even as Bastar activists spoke up for his release on Tuesday and Maoists, who claim to have him in captivity, asked that mediators be named for negotiations.
CPI(Maoist) Dandakaranya special zonal committee spokesman Vikalp issued a statement on Tuesday to say that Manhas was “captured” during the April 3 encounter in Tekulguda and that he would “remain safe in their custody as a prisoner”.
“The government must first announce names of mediators. Then, we will hand him over to police,” the release said. The rebels admitted that five of its cadres, including a woman, were killed in the gunfight. The commando’s wife, Meenu, has appealed to PM Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah to bring him home, just as they brought Wing Commander Abhinandan back from Pakistani captivity.
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Maoists ‘ready to release’ captured policeman
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Announcing that a policeman taken captive during the attack at Jeeragudem of Bijapur in Chattisgarh was with their cadre, Communist Party of India (Maoist) said on Tuesday that it was ready to release him.
However, the Maoists put a condition that it would set the policeman free if the government specifically announced names of the mediators. “Till then, he would be safe in the protection of Janatan sarkar,” a Telugu statement released in the name of CPI-Maoist’s Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee official spokesperson Vikalp said.