The top Maoist leader Koteswar Rao alias Kishenji has been killed in an encounter with security forces at Burishol village in Junglemahal area of West Bengal.
The CRPF has confirmed that 207 Cobra Battalion, 184 CRPF Battalion along with Bengal state police killed the Maoist leader in a joint operation.
Union Home Secretary R K Singh said that their officers claims that Kishenji has been killed by their hands and it's a huge setback for Maoists.
A top counter-insurgency official said that the body of a 58-year-old Molajula Koteswar Rao, better known as Kishenji, was found and identified after the junglemahal encounter.
The official said that after receiving specific information that he and some of his associates and Suchitra Mahato, the wife of a slain leader he was living with, were hiding in the Kushboni jungle.
It was from this forest that the Maoist politburo member, the second-in-command of the outfit and in charge of the military operations in junglemahal since 2009, and Suchitra had escaped the joint forces on Wednesday.
The encounter began today morning at Burisole jungle in Jumboni police station area was close to Kushboni near the Jharkhand border.
Suchitra and others fled.
News reported by AR for Newsvision
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