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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh

Home Minister says he is helpless

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, AUG. 12. The Home Minister, K. Jana Reddy, is stated to have expressed his "helplessness" on a plea for releasing Ganesh, an accused in the Magunta Subbarami Reddy murder case, now in Cherlapalli jail undergoing life-term.

P. Varavara Rao and G. Kalyan Rao, PW emissaries, and K. Balagopal and Jeevan Kumar, civil liberties leaders, met the Home Minister this evening, each group separately, seeking his intervention for the release of Ganesh on the occasion of Independence Day. They told the Minister that Ganesh suffered eight years of jail-term so far cumulatively, four years when under remand and another four years after conviction.

Intervention sought

Even if 20 months remission was given, he would still require the exemption for another four months. They sought the Minister's intervention. But the Home Minister reportedly told the two delegations that he was helpless in the matter and asked them to approach the Governor.

Meanwhile, the Organisation for the Protection of Democratic Rights (OPDR) has demanded repeal of not just POTA and release of those detained under it but Disturbed Areas Act and Armed Forces Special Powers Act too. In a memorandum submitted to the Governor, Surjit Singh Barnala, the OPDR president and general secretary, V. Parvathalu, and R. V. K. Satyanarayan, said there was no meaning in democracy as long as these "black laws" remained on the statute. In a similar manner the Government should put an end to all repressive measures enforced under "undeclared emergency and police-military raj."

Other demands

The other demands made by them include repeal of Article 19 (2) to (6), sub- clauses a, b, c of Article 311 of the Constitution, mandatory judicial enquiry in all cases of police excesses and encounter killings, restoration of land to tribals by enforcing the Andhra Pradesh Land Transfer Regulation and 1/70 and appointment of three men district level judicial commission to settle all land disputes and recover land under the illegal occupation of landlords.

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