-The Hindu The Central Bureau of Investigation told the Supreme Court on Friday that the killings of Cherukuri Rajkumar alias Azad, spokesperson of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), and journalist Hemchandra Pandey by the Andhra Pradesh police on the night of July 1, 2010 were not a fake encounter as alleged in the petitions filed in the court. The CBI made the submission in its final investigation report filed before a...
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CPI(M) leader beaten to death by Trinamool supporters-Ananya Dutta
Another local leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) was beaten to death allegedly by supporters of the Trinamool Congress in a village in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district on Sunday. Bimal Senapati, a prominent local CPI(M) leader in the Deepagram village in Keshiary police station area was beaten up. The family members alleged that the killing was the handiwork of Trinamool Congress activists, said police sources. According to the leadership...
More »Mamata clarifies on Kishenji killing by Ananya Dutta
Even as speculation that Communist Party of India (Maoist) Polit Bureau member Koteswara Rao, alias Kishenji, was killed in a fake encounter refuses to die down, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee attempted to clear the air on Friday. “Kishenji's death was not something that we did knowingly. It was an incident that occurred,” Ms. Banerjee told journalists at the State Secretariat. Speaking to journalists after the surrender of leading Maoist leader Suchitra...
More »Suchitra Mahato, senior Maoist leader, surrenders in Kolkata by Ananya Dutta
A close aide of Kishenji, she was with him when he was killed in an encounter Senior Maoist leader Suchitra Mahato, a close aide of Communist Party of India (Maoist) Polit Bureau member Koteswara Rao, alias Kishenji, surrendered in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the State Secretariat here on Friday. “For all these days I believed in the Maoist politics and have spent long years in the forests. But...
More »CPI-M leaders' killing: CID custody for four arrested
-IANS A court in West Bengal's Burdwan district Monday sent to two days' CID custody four people arrested in connection with the killing of two Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders. "The court of chief judicial magistrate sent the four accused -- Choton Chakrabarty, Patit Paban Tah, Surajit Tah and Gupin Mondal -- to two days CID custody although we had sought seven days. The accused will be brought to CID headquarters...
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