Top Maoist leader Prabhakar among seven killed in Gadchiroli

Prabhakar alias Loketi Chandar Rao, who hailed from Kamareddy in Telangana and was in-charge of the Maoists' Gadchiroli Division Committee, West Sub-Zonal Bureau and 'Company No 10', carried a reward of Rs 25 lakh on his head, officials said. Following intelligence inputs about the movement of surviving cadres of 'Company No 10' and unknown Maoist formation from Chhattisgarh, an operation was launched on the night of February 3, Gadchiroli police said in a release. Fourteen units of C-60 - a special anti-Maoist force of Gadchiroli Police - launched the operation near Phodewada village on Narayanpur-Gadchiroli border, it said.