Plea to produce Nagappa before court

By Our Correspondent

BANGALORE, OCT. 7. Mr. Justice A.V.Srinivasa Reddy and Mr. Justice Sreedhar Rao, constituting a vacation Division Bench in the Karnataka High Court, have ordered issue of notice to the Director-General of Police in a public interest writ petition filed by Mr. Hottepaksha Rangaswamy seeking a direction to the police to produce Mr. Nagappa, assistant film director, before the court to narrate the facts of his "escape" from Veerappan.

The petitioner stated that Mr. Nagappa was giving different versions of his "escape" which were creating confusion among the people about the abduction crisis. The petitioner stated that the kidnapping episode was pre-planned by Mr. M.Karunanidhi, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, for his personal gain with an eye on the coming general elections in Tamil Nadu. It was alleged that Mr. Gopal, editor of Nakeeran, was acting as broker for the two governments, and he had made a lot of money in the process.

A direction was sought to the Tamil Nadu Government to pay Rs. 500 crores as compensation to the Karnataka Government for having "blackmailed" the latter and creating a political crisis.

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