Date:22/02/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/02/22/stories/2008022252810300.htm

Andhra Pradesh

Kin of Maoists seek assistance

VIZIANAGARAM: Relations of Maoists, who felt neglected, approached Superintendent of Police Vikram Singh Mann for assistance on Thursday. Some 15 members, including Mandangi Soda and Pattika Chilaka, mothers of Madangi Papa Rao and Pattika Shanti (both underground cadre), from Baalesu, Chaparaiguda, Aviri, Nandabalaga, Kusumooru and elsewhere under Neelakantapuram police station limits met Mr. Mann and appealed for bank loans, houses, lands, power supply to their homes etc.