Chhattisgarh: 24 Hardcore Naxals Carrying Cumulative Rs 83 L Bounty Surrender

 Raipur: Two days after CPI (Maoist) general secretary Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju was killed in an encounter in Abujhmad under south Bastar in Chhattisgarh, 24 hardcore Naxals carrying a cumulative bounty of Rs 83.50 lakh surrendered in district headquarters of Bijapur in the state on Friday.

Deputy commander of company number two of people’s liberation guerrilla army (PLGA) of Maoists, Hanumath Rao alias Pandu alias Rakesh, and his wife Mangali Korsa alias Jaini who was Platform Party Committee Member (PPCM) of the same unit, were among the senior Naxal leaders who surrendered before the police, Bijapur district superintendent of police Dr Jitendra Kumar Yadav said.

While Hanumath carried a bounty of Rs ten lakh, his wife carried a reward of Rs eight lakh.

Other senior leaders who surrendered were Sampat Panum, PPCM in company number seven of PLGA, his wife Laxmi, PPCM in company number seven, Raju Fasa, member of company number two, Dasari Kunjam, member of company number two, and Mukka Madvi and Arjun Madvi, both are cadres of the dreaded battalion number one of PLGA.

Each of them carried a bounty of Rs eight lakh.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Vishnu Deo Sai hailed the surrendered Naxals for deciding to join the mainstream.

“Total 24 hardcore Naxals carrying a cumulative bounty of Rs 83.50 lakh surrendered in Bijapur. Rewards ranging from Rs 50,000 to Rs ten lakh were announced on these surrendered Naxals. This is the result of my government’s rehabilitation policy for surrendered Naxals”, he said.

According to Bijapur SP, 119 Maoists were killed in separate encounters in Bijapur district the current year so far.

Similarly, 237 were arrested and 227 surrendered in the district during the period.

The development comes two days after Basavaraju and 26 other Maoists were killed in an encounter in Abujhmad jungle in Narayanpur district in south Bastar on May 21.