Raipur:
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has said that Maoists are releasing the four policemen they had taken hostage. He said they will be released soon.
Earlier on Tuesday night, the Naxals had extended by 24 hours the deadline set for the release of the four policemen. The Chhattisgarh government has been negotiating with the Maoists on the safe return of the hostages.
On September 19, the Maoists killed three of the seven policemen they had abducted in Bijapur district in Bastar region; they had demanded the withdrawal of operation Greenhunt.
The government even sent the families of the cops to Hyderabad to speak to Naxal sympathisers there.