Burdwan: West Bengal Agriculture Minister Malay Ghatak on Saturday said he has received a letter threatening to kill him and his family unless he resigned from the Cabinet and quit Trinamool Congress.
"I saw the letter this evening. It was sent by post from Kharagpur in West Midnapore district on May 13 by N Rama Rao of Indian People's Liberation Army," Ghatak told reporters.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the police have been informed about the matter, he said.
"The letter asked me to quit the party and resign from the Cabinet because of my closeness to Mamata Banerjee who they allege had a key role in the killing of Maoist leader Kishenji," Ghatak said. ...
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07:59 AM, May 19, 2013
Two CRPF officers, who killed top Maoist leader Kishenji in West Bengal, were on Saturday honoured with the Shaurya Chakra by President Pranab Mukherjee along with 12 personnel from the Army and the Indian Air Force (IAF). ...
03:23 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Midnapore (WB): Close on the heels of the surrender of dreaded Maoists woman leader Suchitra Mahato, the laptop of Kishenji and a printer were found from Kushboni jungle in West Midnapore district on Tuesday by the security forces. Acting on a tipoff, the laptop and printer wrapped in plastic were found by sniffer dogs of the joint forces hidden under a bush in the jungle, police sources said. The spot...
03:47 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: Maoist leader Suchitra Mahato, wife of slain leader Sasadhar Mahato, on Friday surrendered before the West Bengal government. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee welcomed the surrender. Suchitra was an aide of slain Maoist topgun Kishenji, who was gunned down in an encounter in November 2011. Suchitra was reportedly injured in the incident. In its aftermath, Suchitra reportedly sent several feelers to the government indicating that she wanted to surrender....
03:24 PM, Mar 09, 2012
Garhwa (Jharkhand): The Maoists destroyed a school building blasting it in Garhwa district just before their two-day Bharat bandh ended at midnight. A group of armed Maoists stuffed IED inside a room of a middle school at Bodari village and triggered the blast, Superintendent of Police Michael S Raj told reporters here. A large portion of the structure was damaged in the incident. After three days of violence in Jharkhand,...
11:47 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Kolkata: The killing of top Maoist leader Kishenji in West Midnapore district was a setback for the ultras, but it would not solve the problem, West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan said on Monday. "It is a big setback to the Maoists, but killing one leader will not solve the Maoist movement," the Governor told reporters on the sidelines of a programme in Kolkata. Narayanan, a former national security advisor, however,...
05:09 PM, Dec 05, 2011
Maoist sympathiser Varavara Rao says the maoists are seeing unforeseen violence from the state's side. ...
11:35 AM, Dec 01, 2011
Maoist sympathiser Varavara Rao says the maoists are seeing unforeseen violence from the state's side. ...
11:35 AM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday backed West Bengal government's claim the Maoist leader Kishenji was killed in a gunfight and not in a fake encounter. Chidambaram, while addressing a press conference in New Delhi, said that the November 24 police encounter in which Kishenji was killed was not fake. The Home Minsiter said that the Center has never encouraged fake encounters or killing of persons after they...
05:04 PM, Nov 30, 2011
Kolkata: Joint Forces in West Bengal are in hot pursuit of another important Maoist leader just a few days after gunning down top rebel Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishenji. A team of Central Reserve Police Force has reportedly surrounded top Maoist leader Ranjan Munda in the Gangashole forest in the Nayagram Police Station area of West Midnapore district of the state. The forest is at the border of West Bengal...
02:17 PM, Nov 30, 2011
New Delhi: After the death of Maoist leader Kishenji, fears are that the group will retaliate strongly in West Bengal. But the big question remains - under whose leadership could that be? He came to boost the morale of his cadres, but ended up being killed. Maoist leader Kishenji reportedly sneaked into Bengal's Jungalmahal through the Jharkhand border and was tracked down last Tuesday. He was killed two days later,...
09:08 AM, Nov 30, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal CID has arrested three people for allegedly treating Maoist leader Mallojula Koteswar Rao allias Kishenji's accomplice Suchitra Mahato and helping her escape. Bhudeb Mahato and Tarachand Tudu alias Pintu have been arrested for helping Suchitra, who was with Kishenji when he was gunned down by the security forces on Friday, escape from the encounter site. The trio was arrested from Benasuli village, close to the Burisole forest...
06:41 PM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: The six state appointed interlocutors in West Bengal will decide if they want to be part of the peace talks with the Maoists on Monday. Sources have told CNN-IBN that a majority of the interlocutors do not want to press ahead with dialogue. They said that after Kishenji's killing and the renewed offensive by the government against the Maoists in Junglemahal, the interlocutors fear for their life. West...
01:45 PM, Nov 28, 2011
Kolkata: Claiming that slain Maoist leader Kishenji had been given three days' time to surrender by security forces after he was tracked down, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said the rebel leader and his associates instead opened fire, triggering a gunfight. "There was a village close by. The security forces did not want any collateral damage. So he was asked to surrender. Appeals were made constantly with...
10:37 PM, Nov 27, 2011
Mamata Banerjee said the forces had to fire back at Kishenji, else 500 villagers would have lost their lives. ...
09:49 PM, Nov 27, 2011
Karimnagar: The Communist Party of India (Maoist) on Sunday called for a two-day Bharat bandh on December 4 and 5, 2011 in protest of the encounter of top Maoist leader Malojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishenji who was cremated at his native place near Karimnagar. Alleging that Kishenji was murdered in a fake encounter, Abhay, the spokesperson of the Maoist Central Committee released a letter which was read out by the...
08:28 PM, Nov 27, 2011
Midnapore: Slain top Maoist leader Kishenji was shot six times and had received two splinter wounds during the the fatal encounter with security forces in West Midnapore district, according to autopsy reports. The bullets hit him in the chin, head, chest and other parts of the body, doctors, who conducted the autopsy, said. One of the shots appeared to have been fired from long-range of around 500 m, they added....
02:40 PM, Nov 27, 2011
New Delhi: In a threat from the Maoists on their leader Kishenji's funeral day on Sunday, a land mine was recovered from Goaltore in West Midnapore near a market. Maoist posters condemning Kishenji's killing which they termed a 'fake encounter' and warning the Trinamool Congress were also found next to the spot. All this came even as Kishenji's funeral will be held on Sunday in his hometown in Andhra Pradesh....
01:32 PM, Nov 27, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Saturday began a probe into the allegations that senior Maoist leader Mallojula Koteshwar Rao alias Kishenji was killed by the security forces in a staged shootout, a top official said. "Yes, a probe has been initiated. Whenever any high-profile criminal is killed in an encounter, such allegations do come up. So, we will investigate all the angles to find out if...
12:52 AM, Nov 27, 2011
Kolkata: According to a government-conducted postmortem report, all bullets that hit top Maoist leader Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishenji were fired at him from a distance, thereby contradicting allegations that the Maoist commander was killed in a fake encounter. Maoist leader Kishenji's body was handed over to his relatives at the Midnapore Medical College on Saturday following the autopsy after Kishenji's niece Deepa Rao identified the body as that of...
10:02 PM, Nov 26, 2011
