R Vineel Krishna, the Malkangiri Collector, has been released by his Maoist captors. The Collector had been held hostage by the Maoists in Orissa for eight days. After extensive negotiations between the government and the captors, Krishna was meant to be released on Tuesday night along with junior engineer, Pabitra Majhi, who too had been kidnapped from Malkangiri on February 16.
