Mediators reiterate: No swap in DC's release

May 04, 2012 10:53

Sukma District Collector Alex Paul Menon to address the media in a bit.

The government mediators G Hargopal and BD Sharma say that the Nirmala Buch committee will take up the demands of the Naxals. But they reiterate there has been no swap.

Sharma says that under the government has agreed to set up a committee headed by Nirmala Buch, one of the two government mediators, to review the cases of all prisoners languishing in Chhattisgarh jails, including those demanded by the Maoists.

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