Information About Incident 57418-113676-287994 in Belgaum India

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Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) authorities have appealed to the West Bengal home department to ensure that the CRPF personnel get the monetary incentive which was announced for catching or killing top Maoist leader Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji, a report in Anandabazar Patrika said on August 28, reports news.oneindia.in.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: West Bengal
• Matched District: Belgaum
• Actgroup: kill
• Actor: the CRPF personnel
• Subject: top Maoist leader Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji

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Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) authorities have appealed to the West Bengal home department to ensure that the CRPF personnel get the monetary incentive which was announced for catching or killing top Maoist leader Mallojula Koteswara Rao alias Kishanji, a report in Anandabazar Patrika said on August 28, reports news.oneindia.in. A reward of INR 3.1 million was announced for Kishanji's head but the CRPF personnel are yet to get the money even after nine months have lapsed since he was killed during a gunfight in the Burishole forest near the Bengal-Jharkhand border on November 24 , 2011. The award for Kishenji's head was announced by the Governments of Odisha (INR 700,000) and Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh (1.2 million each). Home Ministry sources said even though the cash reward was announced by Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha, it was the duty of the West Bengal government to coordinate the reward-giving procedure for Kishanji's death took place on its soil.

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