Hyderabad, July 30 - A top left-wing extremist leader Kura Devender alias Amar was Thursday released from a jail here after the Andhra Pradesh High Court granted him bail.

The 44-year-old leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti walked out of Cherlapally Central Jail as dozens of his supporters received him amidst singing of revolutionary songs.

Amar, who had participated in the first ever direct talks between Maoists and the state government in 2004, was arrested by Andhra Pradesh police from Pune in April last year. He is a central committee member and state committee secretary of Janashakti, formed in 1992 with the merger of seven Communist groups.

The group, mainly active in parts of Telangana, lost several key leaders and cadres during the last four years.

Amar told reporters outside the jail that his future course of action would be decided by the party and that he would remain active in the 'people's movement'. He claimed that the movement was yielding good results as proved by the land reforms legislation passed by parliament.