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“Honour agreement reached for Collector's release”

BHUBANESWAR: One of the three mediators who facilitated the release of abducted Malkangiri Collector R. Vineel Krishna in February this year urged the State government on Saturday to implement the agreement that was reached for ensuring the release of the abducted Collector and junior engineer Pabitra Majhi.

In a statement, Dandapani Mohanty also alleged that the State government was not sticking to its words that there would be no coercive action by the security forces as long as Maoists did not indulge in any unlawful activities.

“Instead of respecting this important coordinate of the agreement the government and the security forces have gone unabated with the combing operations.

This has further complicated the atmosphere as all instruments towards building any kind of confidence among the aggrieved sections on the need to sit with the administration and its representatives to deliberate and thrash out a dignified way of addressing the issues are facing the danger of being aborted even before it is taken up,” Mr. Mohanty said in his statement.

“That there is a corresponding lack of political will on the side of the government to prevail upon the police, paramilitary and security forces to refrain them from combing operations is reflective of the numerous instances of violations that have been reported by mass media and fact finding reports of independent and civil rights sources in the last 40 days,” he added.

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