Date:23/12/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/12/23/stories/2007122355630800.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Maoists vow to ‘free’ arrested leaders

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: The Communist Party of India (Maoist) has declared that its guerrilla fighters would “certainly secure the release of the arrested leaders”, while maintaining that the Central and Andhra Pradesh governments were concentrating on eliminating the Maoist Central and State-level leaders to completely suppress the ongoing people’s war in the country.

The Maoist assertion to get the arrested leaders released comes in the backdrop of the arrest of a top naxal leader Malla Raji Reddy alias Sattenna in Kerala last week. He has been shifted to the high-security prison at Cherlapally on the city outskirts after he was brought from Kerala.