Karnataka will decide on its course of action to resolve the Rajkumar kidnap drama after talks with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, who is scheduled to arrive in Bangalore on Friday. Official emissary R.R. Gopal returned from the forest on Wednesday after he failed to convince forest brigand Veerappan to free abducted Kannada film star Rajkumar and three others. After a high-power committee meeting, state Home Minister Mallikarjuna M. Kharge said the meeting would discuss the fallout of emissary’s failure to secure the release of Rajkumar. “The Chief Ministers of both states will decide on the future course of action to free Rajkumar.”
He said the government was fully prepared to argue its case before the Supreme Court, which has stayed the release of 121 TADA detenus in Karnataka. After the pleadings are completed, a date for hearing the case would be fixed. “This time however, our main argument will not be the law and order problem.”
Bureau Report