Maoist Leader Azad

• 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...

• 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: 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...