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A day after abduction, Chhattisgarh
collector still untraceable
Sunday April 22, 2012 01:48:19 PM,
IANS
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 Maoists abduct Chhattisgarh collector
Maoist rebels Saturday abducted the Sukma district
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Raipur: Chhattisgarh
police on Sunday failed to find a clue about Sukma district
collector Alex Paul Menon, a day after he was abducted from a
forested area at gun-point by Maoists while he was interacting
with tribal farmers about their problems.
Police officials posted in Sukma district searched certain parts
of the forest area adjoining Andhra Pradesh in the early hours of
Sunday to rescue the abducted 32-year-old collector.
"But he is so far completely traceless, we have no idea at which
part of their hideouts the rebels have kept him hostage,"
officials here at the police headquarters told IANS.
A source added that the state government and the police department
were eagerly waiting for a message or demands from the Maoists to
release the young Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer.
Maoists clad in tribal dresses Saturday evening abducted the IAS
officer from the 2006 batch in full public view. They killed his
two guards when they resisted the abduction.
Menon, who hails from Tamil Nadu, was taken hostage from a
forested area Manjhipara, around 500 km south of Raipur, in the
first ever abduction of any IAS officer in the mineral-rich state
since Maoist insurgency broke out in the late 1980s.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, who has been heading a
BJP government in the state since December 2003, and the
opposition Congress have appealed to the Maoists to release the
district collector immediately.
Menon's wife Asha also made a fresh appeal Sunday to the Maoists
through local news channels to release her husband as he is
suffering from asthma and not carrying medicines with him.
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