<p>The Y S Rajashekhara Reddy-government had conceded one of the demands of CPI (Maoists) when they came for peace talks with the state government in October 2004. <br />“The demand was accepted as a humanitarian issue,” says senior editor Pothuri Venkateswar Rao who was one of the mediators for the talks then.<br /><br />The AP government had facilitated the movement of the dead bodies of slain Maoists in the state to their native villages for last rites. Wherever the families were not in a position to come and take custody, civil rights activists Varavara Rao, G Kalyan Rao, Gaddar etc took lead to ensure handing over of the bodies to families.<br /><br />When then DGP Swaranjit Sen prevented such practice in some cases, the activists staged dharnas and finally through political intervention got the process permitted in spite of the police department’s dissent.<br /><br />It would be used to glorify the bloodshed and violent movement, he had said when a HRC judge directed him to give the body to the relatives. <br /><br />Of the nearly 24 top guns of CPI ( Maoist movement ) killed in various encounters, many of them were in Karnataka, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra and Odisha, about 17 to 18 bodies have been handed over to relatives. <br /><br />In other cases, long delay in identification had led to heavy decomposing of bodies and subsequent funeral rites conducted by the police on court orders. This include two such cases in Jharkhand, three in Chattisgarh and two in Odisha.<br /><br />According to state intelligence sources, nearly 154 left wing activists were killed since 2005. Other than 24 top guns, others were lower cadres. <br /><br />The bodies of lower cadres were disposed off by police and local authorities as in many cases there was no proper identity and nobody came to claim their bodies, said a police officer.<br /><br />Saturday night, the mortal remains of Kishenji,were not allowed to be kept at the Tank Bund to facilitate public to offer their tributes, as his sympathisers planned. The police, saw to it that the body is taken from the airport to Pedapalli through an alternative route.<br /><br /></p>
<p>The Y S Rajashekhara Reddy-government had conceded one of the demands of CPI (Maoists) when they came for peace talks with the state government in October 2004. <br />“The demand was accepted as a humanitarian issue,” says senior editor Pothuri Venkateswar Rao who was one of the mediators for the talks then.<br /><br />The AP government had facilitated the movement of the dead bodies of slain Maoists in the state to their native villages for last rites. Wherever the families were not in a position to come and take custody, civil rights activists Varavara Rao, G Kalyan Rao, Gaddar etc took lead to ensure handing over of the bodies to families.<br /><br />When then DGP Swaranjit Sen prevented such practice in some cases, the activists staged dharnas and finally through political intervention got the process permitted in spite of the police department’s dissent.<br /><br />It would be used to glorify the bloodshed and violent movement, he had said when a HRC judge directed him to give the body to the relatives. <br /><br />Of the nearly 24 top guns of CPI ( Maoist movement ) killed in various encounters, many of them were in Karnataka, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra and Odisha, about 17 to 18 bodies have been handed over to relatives. <br /><br />In other cases, long delay in identification had led to heavy decomposing of bodies and subsequent funeral rites conducted by the police on court orders. This include two such cases in Jharkhand, three in Chattisgarh and two in Odisha.<br /><br />According to state intelligence sources, nearly 154 left wing activists were killed since 2005. Other than 24 top guns, others were lower cadres. <br /><br />The bodies of lower cadres were disposed off by police and local authorities as in many cases there was no proper identity and nobody came to claim their bodies, said a police officer.<br /><br />Saturday night, the mortal remains of Kishenji,were not allowed to be kept at the Tank Bund to facilitate public to offer their tributes, as his sympathisers planned. The police, saw to it that the body is taken from the airport to Pedapalli through an alternative route.<br /><br /></p>
