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Maoists release Odisha legislator Hikaka
Thursday April 26, 2012 11:05:53 AM,
IANS
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Bhubaneswar:
Maoists Thursday released Odisha legislator Jhina Hikaka in the
state's Koraput district after holding him in captivity for more
than a month, sources said.
TV visuals showed Hikaka, looking
healthy and relieved, walking into a crowd of people, accompanied
by his wife.
"We're glad that he is safe and unharmed," Baijayant Panda, an MP
of Hikaka's party Biju Janata Dal (BJD), told reporters.
Left-wing extremists,
who kidnapped 37-year-old Hikaka from
Laxmipur in Koraput, over 500 km from here, March 24, had
Wednesday announced that a people's court had decided to release
him after he apologised to the rebels and the local villagers.
A Maoist leader calling herself 'Aruna', in an audio message aired
by a local television channel here, Wednesday said the decision to
release him was taken after he promised to resign from the
assembly and the primary membership of the BJD.
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