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Virasam seeks members' release

Special Correspondent

Quashing of conspiracy case demanded

HYDERABAD: The Revolutionary Writers Association (Virasam) has demanded quashing of the conspiracy case against four of its members and two Maoists recently arrested at Aurangabad and demanded their unconditional release.

The association said the arrested persons should have been released on bail on the basis of the charges made against them. But, the police pre-empted the release by filing a petition for their custody for further interrogation.

`Fabricated charges'

The Chief Minister, Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy's promise to a delegation of journalists not to oppose the bail plea did not have bearing. The police had their way in seeking the custody.

The association president, G. Kalyan Rao, and some poets and writers told reporters here on Saturday that the arrested persons faced `fabricated' charges of criminal conspiracy and of trying to "overthrow an elected Government through war". The material that the police recovered from them to substantiate the charges was story books, literary criticism, poems and a couple of personal letters written by a former association member, Varavara Rao. .

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