The Hindu Business Line : 18-hour ordeal for Andhra Bank top brass

Two Directors and two General Managers of Andhra Bank were trapped in their rooms for nearly 18 hours as terrorists ran amok in the South Mumbai five-star Hotel Trident at Nariman Point late Wednesday evening.

The Directors – Mr V.H. Ramakrishnan and Mr Madhusudan Prasad – and the General Managers – Mr S Suryanarayana and Mr. S Prabhakar Reddy – had checked into the hotel late Wednesday evening to attend meetings of the Audit Committee of the Board (ACB) and the Management Committee Meeting (MCM) scheduled for next day morning.

The bank’s Chairman & Managing Director, Mr R.S. Reddy, and Executive Director, Mr Anil Girotra, were to fly into the city from Hyderabad early today to attend the meetings but aborted the trip after the news of the attack.

The bank directors and top management team officials were occupying rooms on the 23rd, 24th and 25th floors while the terrorists were holed up on the 19th floor.

The officials managed to come out unscathed along with other hotel guests after the National Security Guards, Marine Commandos, and Commandos of the Rapid Action Force decided to storm the hotel to rescue those trapped inside.

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