Click to play videoKolkata: Reports of Maoist leader Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji having been killed in the recent crackdown on the rebels have been doing the rounds.
Even though there has been no confirmation yet but West Bengal DGP Bhupinder Singh said that the police have arrested a quack who reportedly treated an injured Kishenji.
"There was some information about some of possible injured person being treated by some quack. We worked on this information and we picked up one quack doctor from Belpahari area," says Singh
He claimed that during the recent crackdown on the Maoists some of their top leaders may have been injured or killed.
"No we can't say about the trails. From the intensity of the encounter we can draw a conclusion that firstly the number of Maoists was large. Secondly they were well armed and thirdly they also have sufficient ammunition. Fourthly some top leaders were present there (during the encounter)," he said.
"That is an area, in the past we have seen the movement of the Maoist leaders and since the information came again, that's why we went into that location.
Immediately after this operation there was some input about the dead body. We went and one body was found. It had bullet injury and there was another dead body also but it didn't appear to be involved in this case," he added.
Following the March 25 encounter at Hatilodh forest in West Bengal's Lalgarh, there have been some reports that the Maoist leader was either dead or injured.
The 51-year-old Maoist leader is a member of CPI(Maoist) Politburo and Central Military Commission. He is in charge of all the Maoist operations in West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh
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