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Top Maoist leader killed in encounter in Chhattisgarh

     Raipur: A Maoist zonal commander has been killed in an encounter with the police in Chhattisgarh's Sarguja region. "After an hour-long gunfight late last night with police in the jungles of Gautampur, the militant, Shyam Bihari alias Devid, was killed," said, A N Upadhyaya, Inspector-General of Police of the Sarguja Range. Bihari was operating in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh and was also a prominent leader of the banned Peoples' War Group (PWG). He had several cases pending against him and the state government had announced awards of Rs 1.5 lakh and Rs 25,000 respectively on his head.