Kishanji, the Maoist leader shot dead in encounter by WB Police

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In a huge impede to Maoists, its top leader Kishanji was today killed in a gun battle with security forces in a forest inWest Midnapore district of West Bengal, a day after he by a whisker escaped from there. The body of 58-year-old Molajula Koteswar Rao, better known as Kishanji, was found and acknowledged after the encounter, a top counter-insurgency force official has old.

Kishanji, a Telugu, was a Maoist politburo member, the third responsible of the outfit and in-charge of its armed operations in junglemahal since 2009. After receiving specific in sequence that he and some of his acquaintances and Suchitra Mahato, the wife of an assassinated leader he was living with, were holed up in Kushboni jungle, the area was surrounded by security forces, triggering an encounter.

The four tiers of Kishanji’s security were contravening as said by the official. It was from Kushboni forest that Kishanji had been operating since 2009. After in receipt of specific in sequence that he and some of his associates and Suchitra Mahato, the wife of a slain leader he was living with, were holed up in Kushboni jungle, the area was surrounded by security forces, generate an encounter.

The four tiers of Kishanji’s security were breached, the official said. It was from Kushboni forest that Kishanji had been operating since 2009.

The come across which began this morning at Burisole jungle in Jamboni police station area was close to Kushboni near the Jharkhand border. The official has told that Kishanji’s body was recognized by the AK-47 rifle he was carrying. Suchitra and others fled. A laptop bag, some letters written by Kishanji and Suchitra and a few important credentials were earlier seized by the joint forces from Gosaibandh village nearby.

Union home secretary R K Singh has said inNew Delhithat the killing of Kishanji was a “huge setback for the Naxals as he was number three in the hierarchy of CPI (Maoists).

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