The top rung maoist leadership has every reason to be worried now as intelligence agencies in different Left Wing Extremism affected States have been striking gold in either arresting or killing the top leadership. The maoist movement faced a series of setbacks in 2011 as the security forces managed to arrest four Central Committee members earlier and the fifth blow to the rebel movement was dealt in the killing of Kishenji,...

Security forces zeroed in on the location of top maoist leader Kishanji with the help from their informants within close quarters of the operational commander in what marks a success of intelligence agencies in penetrating the close-knit extremist outfit and suggests that other top-notch extremists could also be in the crosshairs. Senior official sources attribute the elimination of Kishanji to 'HumInt' ( human intelligence) network, painstakingly nurtured during the truce they...

Varavara Rao says it was a fake encounter; CRPF terms it an ‘absolutely clean operation' A day after Communist Party of India (maoist) Polit Bureau member Koteshwara Rao alias Kishenji was gunned down by the joint security forces in the Burisole forest in Paschim Medinipur district, maoist sympathisers and security forces on Friday traded allegations and came out with counter-claims on whether he was killed in a “fake encounter.”  While revolutionary poet...

The mother of Kishenji, the maoist Who was killed on Thursday by joint forces in the outskirts of Jhargram, will file a petition in Calcutta High Court, demanding a judicial inquiry into the killing.   The Magisterial inquest of the body has been conducted. Sources said that Kishenji's mother will file a plea demanding a judicial inquiry into the killing. Kishenji's body will be sent to Jhargram for a post-mortem.   The maoist movement...

India's maoists have spread north-east, gaining a foothold in the strategically located states bordering China and Burma, officials and analysts say. The maoists are filling the void created by dwindling ethnic insurgent groups like the Ulfa, an Institute for Conflict Management (ICM) report says. One key Assam official told the BBC that boys thought to have gone south for jobs had instead joined the rebels. The maoists have become squeezed in their traditional...