Maoist Encounter: R K Allegedly In Police Custody

Several maoist parties, militias, sympathizers and other groups and individuals came out in condemnation of the police encounter of maoists along the Andhra Pradesh - Odisha border and alleged that senior Maoist leader G Ramakrishna, a.k.a. R K, was in police captivity, dead or alive.

Speaking to the media today, Telangana JAC leader M Kodandaram alleged that the Andhra Pradesh Police was holding R K, and demanded that they produce him to the Court, without harm.

The missing Maoist leader's wife Sirisha made her first public appearance after the encounter and filed a "habeas corpus" petition demanding to produce him safely before the HC judge. In the petition, she expressed her fears and suspicions that R K might possibly be dead, given his alleged deteriorating health.

Other top maoist leaders, too, came out and alleged that nine maoists and girijans in the AOB were in captivity along with R K. However, he also expressed suspicion over R K being alive. He claimed that R K's health and age did not permit him to escape the carnage, and might either be in wounded somewhere or in police custody - alive or dead.

He lashed out at the Andhra Pradesh government and demanded that they bring him forth safely and produce him to the court. He also claimed that the strike was staged, and that what really happened was that, as per inner sources, the police and paramilitary forces had entered the maoist lair undercover and drugged 34 maoists and shot them in cold blood. He added that such an act was against human rights.