AP Police Denies Holding Maoist G Ramakrishna

The Andhra Pradesh Police filed a counter petition in the High Court denying charges that top Maoist bigwig G Ramakrishna, a.k.a. R K, was in their custody, as was being alleged by wife and others.

Sirisha, R K spouse, and other petitioners sought the intervention of the HC recently and filed a "habeas corpus" petition alleging that the Maoist leader was nabbed by the cops after the October 24 encounter in Malkangiri on the AP-Odisha border. They requested the court to direct the police to produce R K before it, alive; to which the HC notified the Police to heed to the request. But today the PD denied all of these charges.

The Counsel for the AP government filed a counter petition in which Vizag Rural SP Rahul Dev Sharma stoutly denied that R K was in police custody. It was also pointed out in the petition that the police were also not aware whether R K was present at the time of encounter. The Court was also informed that as many as 40 cases were pending against R K, 22 of which were registered in Rural Vizag police limits alone.

The Court then questioned the petitioners whether they had any evidence to support their allegations.

Upon unavailability of verifiable evidence the Counsel for the petitioners sought two weeks time for presenting their evidence, whereupon the hearing was postponed for two weeks.