Raipur (Chhattisgarh): A day after claiming to have held captive the Central Reserve Police Force’s (CRPFs) jawan who went lacking because the lethal encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur, the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) has now shared a purported picture of the commando of their custody.
Speaking to ABP News, Bijapur primarily based reporter Ganesh Mishra claimed that the Naxalites contacted him on Tuesday night at about 5 PM and knowledgeable, ” I got a call of their spokesperson through an unknown number. The jawan was shot, medical treatment is being given and is in stable condition. We will release the jawan in two days if a team is constituted by the government for talks with them. The Maoists want the government to give a confirmation of who will be in the mediation panel from their end.”
The reporter additional claimed that the Maoists have shared with him a photograph of Commando Rakeshwar Singh within the possession of Naxalites. He claimed that the Maoists group has demanded the state authorities to nominate a crew of mediator for the discharge of the commando. The state authorities, nevertheless, believes there cannot talks if circumstances are set by Maoists who’re indulging in such sorts of heinous violence.
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CRPF’s Rakeshwar Singh Manhas, from the three.25 lakh robust paramilitary pressure’s elite CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action), went lacking throughout a fierce gun battle with a platoon of over 300 People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district final week through which 22 safety personnel had been killed and 31 injured.
Efforts are on to rescue the lacking soldier, who’s being held captive by Maoists group. Meanwhile, the household of Rakeshwar Singh again in Jammu are retaining their fingers crossed. Thousands of individuals staged protests and blocked the Jammu-Poonch freeway in the present day, urging the authorities to rescue the jawan.
The relations have alleged that the federal government is sustaining silence and never taking anyll step within the matter. “If the Government of India can get Abhinandan released from Pakistan, then why is there a delay in the case of Rakeshwar Singh?”
According to sources, the Home Ministry is continually taking updates from CRPF officers within the matter. If sources are to be believed, Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla himself is retaining an eye fixed and efforts to rescue the jawan has been intensified.
