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\ Mehta said if this was the view, then he would withdraw Mehta said if this was the view, then he would withdraw\his suggestion of providing security cover to the petitioner.\ Countering Mehta, Desai alleged that recently effigies of\petitioner and other activists were burnt by police personnel\who were in uniform.\ The ASG said investigation has been ordered into the\effigy burning and assured the court that those found guilty\will not be spared.\ The bench asked the Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar and\ASG to come up with innovative solutions to tackle the problem\on the next date of hearing on November 11.\ The apex court had on October 21 told the Centre to\consider talking to the Naxals as Noble peace prize winner\Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos did with FARC rebels to\end the five-decade-old civil war in that country.\ It had asked the government to authorise someone to hold\peace talks with Naxals and referred to the amicable\settlement reached by two groups in Nagaland at the\intervention of a church.\ The apex court had proposed peace talks, after CBI\apprised it about the results of its investigation into the\alleged violence of security forces in March 2011 in\Morpalli, Tadmetla and Timpuram villages in Chhattisgarh.\ On July 5, 2011, the Court had ordered a CBI enquiry into\these incidents of violence which later charge sheeted several\Special Police Officers for it. PTI MNL SJK RKS\ARC\