The hostage Indian state

A rolling crisis of high profile abductions, initiated with the kidnapping of two irresponsible Italians in Odisha on March 14, continues to hold the national attention with Mr Alex Paul Menon, the District Collector of the newly-formed Sukma district in Chhattisgarh, still in the custody of the Maoists’ Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee since his abduction on April 21. (He is supposed to be released on May 3.)

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