Three Naxals surrender in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada
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With this surrender, 375 Naxals, together with 99 carrying money rewards on their heads, have thus far give up violence in the district.
Three Naxals, one in all them carrying a reward of ₹1 lakh on his head, have surrendered in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, an official stated on Tuesday.
The cadres had been allegedly concerned in planting improvised explosive gadgets (IEDs), damaging roads and bridges and placing up Maoist posters and banners in the interiors of Dantewada and neighbouring Sukma districts since 2015, he stated.
They turned themselves in earlier than police in Dantewada on Monday, saying they had been impressed by the police’s rehabilitation drive ‘Lon Varratu’ and dissatisfied with the “hollow” Maoist ideology, Dantewada Superintendent of Police Abhishek Pallava stated.
Out of the three rebels, Aayta Kohrami, who was energetic as a militia commander, was carrying a reward of ₹1 lakh on his head, whereas the 2 different cadres, recognized as Uika Somdu (23) and Kartam Mahendra (22), had been working as militia members, he stated.
Mahendra was additionally wished in reference to the homicide of an individual in Timmapuram village in 2018, he stated.
With this surrender, 375 Naxals, together with 99 carrying money rewards on their heads, have thus far give up violence in the district underneath the ‘Lon Varratu’ (time period coined in native Gondi dialect for ‘return to your home/village’) marketing campaign launched by police in June final 12 months, the official stated.
Under the initiative, the Dantewada police have put posters and banners in the native villages of at the least 1,600 Naxals, largely carrying money rewards, and appealed to them to return to the mainstream.
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