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political affairs of the party. Rajkumar was underground for 30 years and assumed several aliases including Madhav, Gangadhar, Madhu and Uday. He was an ideologue who had specialised in field-craft as well. Azad was arrested in 1975 and 1978 and jumped bail, carrying a reward of Rs. 1.2 million on his head. He went underground in 1979. He was accused in the killing of
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Court observed "'They (the CBI) have done a painstaking and thorough investigation,' the bench said. 'We have carefully gone through the sequence of events.' It said that prima facie it does not appear to be a fake encounter. 'I went through the report very carefully,' Justice Alam said. The bench
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on whose behalf he used negotiate arms deals and training in handling of weapons and explosives and he went underground. But cases of threat and intimidation apart, he did not have a police record in Andhra
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probe in April 2011 and CBI in March 2012, submitted the probe report before the
Supreme Court terming the encounter as genuine and giving a clean chit to Andhra Pradesh police. Finally on 16 March 2012, after going through the report, Supreme Court concluded that the encounter was not a fake
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