(S.Ravi Seshu)
Even as Telugu newspapers and television channels continue to focus on various angles of the operations of the notorious criminal Nayeemuddin, Eenadu, the largest circulated newspaper, came up with a good story on mysterious disappearance of three persons from Medak district since 2005. They are, Besta Kistayya, Jeela Pochayya and Jodu Anjaneyulu. While Kistayya and Pochayya had connections with naxals, the third person was the friend of Kistayya. Police couldn’t find out even a trace of the trio so far despite repeated appeals made by their family members.

According to the story, a native of Islampur in Toophran mandal, Kistayya had a fight with a landlord, who acquired 30 acres of land near the forest land. Kistayya demanded that the land should be distributed among the local poor including him. In this connection, apparently Kistayya took the help of naxals to intimidate the landlord’s local representative Srinivas.

In this backdrop, Kistayya and his friend Anjaneyulu, who had gone to Gajwel on March 14, 2005, went missing. People know that the duo came on a two-wheeler till Majidpalli of Pargal mandal. Nobody till date know their whereabouts. Around the same time, a former naxal from Giraipalli of Kondapaka mandal, Pochayya, who reportedly helped Kistayya in roping in naxalites into the lands issue, also disappeared.

Police officers, off-the-record, hint at Nayeem’s hand in the ‘missing’ of the three persons. With the reported involvement of Nayeem’s gang, the controversial 30-acre land remained with the landlord and it was sold off to many people later.

Having lost the breadwinners, all the three families are in the grip of penury.

The government should probe this case too at least know the forces behind the disappearance of the the trio.