Raipur: Two top Maoists carrying a bounty of Rs 40 lakh each were on Monday gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Abujhmad area along Chhattisgarh- Maharashtra border, police said. “Preliminary identification of the two slain Maoists confirmed them to be Maoists Central Committee (CC) members, Raju Dada alias Katta Ramachandra Reddy, and Kosa Dada alias Kadari Satyanarayan Reddy. Both the Maoist leaders carried a bounty of Rs 40 lakh each in Chhattisgarh”, Narayanpur district superintendent of police Robinson said. He carried a bounty of Rs 40 lakh. No less than two dozen top Maoist leaders, including CPI (Maoist) general secretary Basavaraju, were killed in separate encounters in Bastar and Gariaband in Chhattisgarh in the past five months.