Reddy, who took charge in Palakkad barely a month before the incident, was soon transferred to Kollam. In fact, it was based on my complaint that an FIR was registered and the police later tracked down and arrested three of them,” Reddy said. And I do not support the armed action method.
I’m actually from Kurnool, and I was doing a lot of work for tribals while posted in Kannur before Palakkad. There were even reports that said I was from Warangal, that I had Maoist links and knew about the hostage drama beforehand, all baseless stories. Some politicians, who came into my chambers immediately after the incident, also hijacked the story in a different direction, raising slogans that it was a conspiracy against the government. There was no further validation,” Reddy recalls, sitting in his Narsingi home, partially modeled on Kerala’s famous Laurie Baker style homes and with a tinge of vintage in the form of an open courtyard in the middle. Because they were offered a safe passage out, no one checked their bags. The four men claimed the gun to be fake because their lives were at stake and they had to escape. They had triggered an explosion during the incident, but the claim of fake weapons, which the media latched on to, changed the narrative. “Truth is that they had a real pistol, and explosives too, possibly ammonium nitrate. The four political extremists, who said they were members of the then unknown outfit Ayyankali Pada and wanted restoration of rights of Adivasis, had announced to the media after releasing Reddy that they managed the nine-hour hostage situation on Octousing just a toy gun and wire wound around pipes brandished as bombs.
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