Click to play videoNew Delhi: Naxals in Jharkhand have allegedly kidnapped an intelligence inspector, Francis Induvar as he was out on work at a market place in Khunti district of the state.
The Naxals have reportedly issued a press release through a local newspapers asking for the release of Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy and two other top leaders who are now reportedly in police custody.
The rebels said the Jharkhand intelligence official would be freed if the police release Ghandy, Chhatradhar Mahto and Chandra Bhushan Yadav.
The cops are still verifying if the letter was indeed written by Naxals.
Meanwhile, while being produced in court on Monday, reportedly two weeks after being arrested by the Delhi police, the alleged Naxal leader Kobad Ghandy managed a few words with the reporters inside the court room itself.
Asked if he was not a prized catch and whether he percieved a threat from security agencies, Ghandy responded like a veteran ideologue.
He said, "Someone who writes cannot be important. It is the people on the ground level who are important."
Meanwhile, the family of the reportedly abducted intelligence official is agonised. The wife of Francis Induwar asks why it had to be her husband who is abducted.
The SSP of Ranchi, Praveen Singh said, "All talk of negotiations is only through the media."
The Centre is confident that the Naxals will not carry out their threat of killing a policeman as the move would be counter productive. But the kidnapping has highlighted the strength and spread of the Naxals and the government's lack of a cohesive strategy in not just dealing with the Naxals but in tackling a hostge situation.
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