Vikram Gowda, killed in an alleged encounter with the Anti Naxal Force (ANF) commandos late on Monday night, was a class 4 dropout from the tribal Malekudiya community, who grew to be a prominent Maoist leader.

Vikram Gowda, a key Naxal leader who had been absconding for over two decades, was shot dead during an encounter with the Anti-Naxal Force (ANF) in the Western Ghats on Monday. The incident occurred during a police operation to apprehend Naxal operatives in the region.

In a significant breakthrough, the Anti-Naxal Force (ANF) of Karnataka Police neutralised Vikram Gowda, a fugitive Naxal leader, in a late-night encounter on Monday in the Kabbinale forest region of Udupi district.

He is an accused in the murder of Sadashiva Gowda who Maoists suspected to be a police informer. Sadashiva was kidnapped and murdered near Kabbinale in Hebri on December 19, 2011.

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The ANF was combing the Hebri region (Kabbinale forests) based on a tip-off. When the police came face-to-face with the Naxals, the latter opened fire and Gowda was killed in exchange fire

In a significant operation, the Anti-Naxal Force (ANF) shot dead notorious Naxal leader Vikram Gowda during a combing operation near Eedu village in Karkala taluk. Gowda, a key figure in Naxalite activities for over 20 years in southern India,

On November 17, 2003, Naxalites Parvati and Hajima were killed in an encounter in Balyoṭṭu, Eedu village of Karkala taluk. On October 21, 2004, naxalites fatally assaulted Chandrakanth, a farmer from Hemmige near Bukadibail, accusing him of being a police informer.

Roopa D Moudgil visited the site of a major encounter in the forests of Hebri, Udupi, where notorious Naxal leader Vikram Gowda was killed in a gunfight. The operation, part of a 10-day combing exercise by the Anti-Naxal Force (ANF),

Vikram Gowda, a notorious Naxalite leader wanted in over 80 cases in Karnataka and Kerala, was killed in an encounter with police in a remote village near Udupi. The 46-year-old, who led the Kabini Dalam-2 Naxal group,

BENGALURU: Karnataka Police have killed one of the most wanted Maoist leaders of South India, Vikram Gowda, in an encounter in the Kabbinale forest region in Udupi district.