Maoist Leader Kishenji

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  Kolkata's Special Task Force Arrests Two Prominent Maoists Leaders In Bengal

  The Special Task Force of the Kolkata Police has arrested two dreaded Maoists who were close to Kishenji, the Naxal leader from Andhra Pradesh, who ruled the roost in at least three districts of West Bengal for more than two years.

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  Mamata Banerjee Got Maoist Leader Kishenji Killed, Says Her Minister

  Six months after her nephew and Trinamool MP publicly said it, a minister in West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's government has claimed she got Maoist leader Mallojula Koteswara Rao, better known as Kishenji, killed in 2011.

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  Trinamool Congress' Abhishek Banerjee Has Exposed the Truth on Kishenji's Death: CPI (M)

  The CPI-M today demanded an explanation from the Mamata Banerjee government about the death of Kishenji after the chief minister's nephew and MP Abhishek Banerjee claimed that the government had killed the top Maoist leader in 2011.

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  Mamata Banerjee's Nephew in Fresh Controversy, Says Bengal Government 'Killed' Maoist Leader Kishenji

  Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee has triggered a controversy by claiming that the West Bengal government had "killed" Maoist leader Kishenji. The comment is at odds with the state government's stand that he had died in a gun battle in a joint operation by paramilitary forces.

• Woman Maoist leader surrenders

  Close Kishenji aide Suchitra Mahato, who had escaped after the Maoist topgun was killed last year, today surrendered with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claiming the injured ultra responded to her government's "offer of peace".

• Mamata Banerjee defends Kishenji killing

  Three days after the death of Maoist leader Kishenji, who was shot dead by security forces, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee broke her silence and has defended the police encounter.

• Kishenji shot six times, says autopsy report

  Slain top Maoist leader Kishenji was shot six times and had received two splinter wounds during the encounter with security forces in West Midnapore district, according to his autopsy report.

• Kishenji's niece identifies body, alleges torture

  Two days after top Maoist leader Kishenji was killed by security forces in a fierce gunbattle in West Bengal, his niece and Naxal ideologue P. Varavara Rao today identified his body.

• Dasgupta dials Chidambaram, alleges Kishenji murdered

  Claiming he had information that Maoist leader Kishenji was arrested and "murdered in cold blood", Communist Party of India (CPI) MP Gurudas Dasgupta on Friday telephoned Home Minister P. Chidambaram to demand a probe into the death.

• Kishenji's niece to identify body

  Top Maoist leader Kishenji's niece Deepa will arrive here from Andhra Pradesh along with Telugu poet Varavara Rao on Friday afternoon to identify the slain rebel's body.

• Who is Kishenji?

  A shrewd fighter and a marksman, top Maoist leader Kishenji spent three decades of his life in hiding, waging a relentless, bloody war against the state to emerge as the biggest security headache for the West Bengal Government and the Centre.

• Maoist leader Kishenji killed; his mother alleges 'fake encounter'

  A day after top Maoist leader Kishenji was killed in a fierce gunfight with security forces in West Bengal, his mother has alleged that he was killed in a "fake encounter". Reports say she will file a writ petition in this regard in the Calcutta High Court today.

• Maoist leader Kishenji killed by security forces

  Top Maoist leader Kishenji has been killed by security forces in a fierce gunfight in West Bengal.

• Is Maoist leader Kishenji dead or alive?

  Is the Maoist leader Kishanji dead or alive? Security forces have chanced upon a poster at Purnapani village in the Lalgarh area of West Bengal that has once again renewed the debate. The poster signed by an unknown entity calling itself Tribal Platoon says "We will not allow the misuse of Shaheed Kishenji for selfish gains." What has trigge...

• Maoist leader Kishenji calls for 3-month ceasefire

  Two days after the President and the Prime Minister asked the Maoists to abjure violence and come to the discussion table, top Maoist leader Kishenji on Tuesday night suggested a three-month ceasefire by both sides and talks for a peace process."The President and the Prime Minister, in their Independence Day speeches, have appealed to the Maoists t...