Maoist Azad

• Allahabad High Court grants bail to rights activist couple

  The Allahabad High Court today granted bail to human rights activists Seema Azad and her husband Vishwavijay who were recently awarded life imprisonment by a local court in Allahabad after being charged with sedition and having links with Maoist insurgents.

• CBI to investigate Maoist Azad's killing

  The encounter killing of Maoist leader Azad in July last year will now be investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The Andhra Pradesh government today informed the Supreme Court that it will issue notification for a CBI probe into the killing of Azad and journalist Hemchandra Pandey. Earlier the Supreme Court expressed displeasure...

• CBI to probe Maoist Azad's killing?

  Senior advocate Harish Salve representing the Andhra Pradesh government told the Supreme Court today that he will persuade the Andhra government to hand over the probe into the killing of top Naxalite leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad and journalist Hemchandra Pandey to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).Pandey's wife and Activist Swami A...

• Court to hear petition on Maoist leader Azad's 'fake' encounter

  The Supreme Court will today hear the petition on the alleged fake encounter of top Maoist leader Cherakuri Rajkumar alias Azad and journalist Hemchandra Pandey. The petition was filed by journalist Hemchandra Pandey's wife Vinita Pandey.The two were killed in July 2010 near Mahrashtra-Andhra border by a team of Andhra Pradesh police.While the pol...

• Maoists kill one in Bengal, damaged rail tracks in Bihar

  Maoists shot dead a man in West Bengal and set off a blast partially damaging tracks in Bihar on the second day of their two-day bandh in six states.The body of the unidentified man was found this morning. He had been assaulted before being shot dead at Jhargram town in West Midnapore district in West Bengal, police sources said.Posters left beside...

• Was Maoist Azad's death a fake encounter?

  Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has given a clean chit to the controversial killing of top Maoist leader Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad. This despite the fact that the post mortem has raised serious concerns about this encounter, even suggesting he was shot at close range."In the FIR, they claim that they had information that in Adilabad's forest,...

• Mamata's statement on Azad's killing justified: Pranab

  Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who is facing flak from the Opposition for her statement on the killing of Maoist leader Cherakuri Rajkumar alias Azad, has received support from Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee who found "nothing wrong" with it.When asked whether Banerjee, being part of the UPA government, was unjustified in saying...

• Bengal minister questions Azad's killing

  Union minister Mamata Banerjee's remarks questioning the circumstances of Maoist leader Azad's death and her subsequent insistence that she stands by those remarks created an absolute furore in Parliament.But now, one of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's own ministers seems to be echoing Mamata's question.In what can only be a huge embarrassment for the Le...

• Mamata defends Lalgarh remark, doesn't rule out mediating with Maoists

  It seems there is little the UPA government can do to keep a check on Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee.  In a major embarrassment to the government today, Mamata says she stands by her remarks on Maoists at the Lalgarh rally, where she called Maoist leader Azad's encounter a 'murder' and demanded that the government investigate it."Whatever I ...

• Pranab Mukherjee meets Mamata Banerjee

  Senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday met Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata where she is recuperating after a car accident she had recently.  Pranab says the visit was just a courtesy call and that he hopes Mamata will recover soon and attend the monsoon session of Parliament.  It is not clear whether Prana...

• Mamata: Way Maoist leader Azad was killed not right

  Slamming the Left at a rally in Lalgarh on Monday, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said the way Maoist leader Azad was killed was not right and asked for a probe into his death.C Rajakumar alias Azad was killed in an encounter by state police in Andhra Pradesh on July 2.  Following his death, Maoist sympathisers had filed a petition i...

• Maoist leader Azad killed recently was in Delhi for 4 months: Sources

  Senior Maoist leader Cherikuri Rajkumar alias Azad, killed on July 2, was in Delhi for four months, sources have told NDTV. Azad was reportedly in touch with academics in Delhi who were helping him with logistics.

• Maoists call 48-hour 'Bharat bandh' from July 7

  Maoists called for a 48-hour 'Bharat bandh' from July 7 to protest against the killing of their senior Politburo member Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad at Adilabad in Andhra Pradesh by the police, top Maoist leader Kishenji said on Sunday.

• Andhra Pradesh: Two top Maoist leaders killed in encounter

  Two Maoist leaders were killed in an encounter late last night in Adilabad district of Andhra Pradesh. One of them has been identified as Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad, the official spokesperson of the Maoists in the north Telengana region. Rajakumar was also a member of the central committee and a part of the Polit Bureau, the top body of the Mao...