A senior Maoist leader, carrying Rs 40 lakh bounty on head, was killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Thursday, officials told news agency PTI. They said Maoists’ Central Committee member Gautam alias Sudhakar was gunned down in the latest gunfight, which comes days after CPI (Maoist) general secretary Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju was killed by security forces in the Bastar region, dealing a major blow to the armed movement.
Key Maoist leader, carrying Rs 40 lakh bounty, killed in encounter in Chhattisgarh
