Author: Syed Amin Jafri in Hyderabad
Publication: Rediff on Net
Date: December 23, 2002
URL: http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/dec/23ap.htm
Two cops abducted by the outlawed
People's War were set free on Saturday night after the police released
13 Naxalite sympathisers from its custody in Guntur district in Andhra
Pradesh.
Six persons including Takkellapadu
sarpanch T Srinivasa Rao were released on Friday and the rest were released
on Saturday.
The police also conceded the demand
for withdrawal of police picket in Takkellapadu village.
The cops -- R Venkateswarlu and
K Venkateswara Rao -- were released around 2230 hours (IST). The cops were
blindfolded and made to trek a distance of 15 km to a road point. Then
their blindfolds were removed and were told to take a right turn if they
wanted to reach Karampudi village or the straight road if they wanted to
proceed to Dachepalli, a police spokesman said.
The cops took the Dachepalli road
and reached Chinnakodammagundla village around midnight.
After spending the night in the
village school, they commandeered a jeep and got themselves dropped at
Dachepalli police station at 0715 hours (IST) on Sunday morning.
During their captivity, they were
frequently threatened with death since the police was killing innocent
persons in "fake" encounters, they said.
They were taken to two different
places during the 50-hour captivity.
