22.4.12

Reds abduct district collector in Chhattisgarh

Maoists pulled off an audacious kidnapping of the district collector of Sukma in southern Chhattisgarh on Saturday, killing two of his bodyguards when they tried to stop them. The collector, Alex Paul Menon, was in a meeting with a group of villagers for a government outreach programme. A 2006 batch IAS officer, Menon 
was tracked by the Maoists as he reached Manjipara village in tribal Bastar region on Saturday afternoon, according to the police. Around 90 Maoists reached the spot and shot dead two personal security officers of the collector before taking him into the nearby forest,” said 
additional director general of police Ram Niwas. The rebels, he said, spared the sub-divisional magistrate S K Vaidya who was present in Manjipara village. 

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