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Menon freed, says willing to serve in Sukma again
Thursday May 03, 2012 07:37:00 PM,
IANS
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Sukma (Chhattisgarh): Maoist militants Thursday released Chhattisgarh's Sukma district
collector Alex Paul Menon after keeping him hostage for 12 days.
Menon said he was willing to serve in Sukma as collector again.
Menon, an IAS officer from Tamil Nadu, walked out of the Maoists
hideout after 6.30 p.m. looking tired and exhausted. He was
abducted from a forested area in Bastar region in Chhattisgarh
April 21.
Menon expressed gratitude for his safe release. "I thank the
mediators, my state government, my chief minister, my family
members and mediapersons," the Sukma collector told reporters
gathered at Tarmetla to receive him.
Asked if his health was fine, the asthma patient, who was wearing
a blue shirt and carrying a black bag on his right shoulder, said
he was "OK".
Asked if he would serve as collector in Sukma district again, he
replied in the affirmative. "If the state government wishes, I am
ready to serve in Sukma district as collector," Menon said.
He was accompanied by one of the Maoist mediators - B.D. Sharma.
Asthma medicines had been sent to the 2006 batch IAS officer
through Left leader Manish Kunjam.
Chief Minister Raman Singh welcomed the release and expressed his
thanks to the media in the "campaign for the safe release of the
collector". He described the release as a "first step toward
achieving peace with the Maoists in the state."
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