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  • Chhattisgarh: 4 Naxals, including two who caused 5 police deaths in 2015, surrender

    By PTI
    RAIPUR: Four Naxals, including two accused of triggering a blast in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada in 2015 in which five policemen were killed, surrendered on Saturday, an official said.

    The four, including a woman, surrendered at Kirandul police station in Dantewada, some 340 kilometres from here, he said.

    “Of the four, Bhima Markam alias Pandu (40) and Lalita Tamo (27), were involved in blowing up an anti-landmine vehicle with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Cholnar area on April 13 in 2015, leaving five policemen dead.

    The other two, Motu Markam (40) and Baman Ran Kunjam (31) were wanted for a 2013 attack on a polling team as well as other incidents,” Dantewada Superintendent of Police Abhishek Pallava said.

    All four were active jan militia members in the Malangir area committee of the Naxals’ Darbha divisions, which is one of the most dreaded formations of the outlawed group in Bastar, he said.

    The four surrendered as they were impressed with the police’s rehabilitation drive ‘Lon Varratu’, which means return to your home/village in the local Gondi dialect, he said.

    The number of Naxals surrendering as part of this campaign, in which ultras are being invited to return to the mainstream, since June last year now stood at 386, the SP informed.

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  • Chhattisgarh: Three Naxals surrender in Dantewada

    By PTI
    DANTEWADA: Three Naxals, one of them carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head, have surrendered in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, an official said on Tuesday.

    The cadres were allegedly involved in planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs), damaging roads and bridges and putting up Maoist posters and banners in the interiors of Dantewada and neighbouring Sukma districts since 2015, he said.

    They turned themselves in before police here on Monday, saying they were impressed by the police’s rehabilitation drive ‘Lon Varratu’ and disappointed with the “hollow” Maoist ideology, Dantewada Superintendent of Police Abhishek Pallava said.

    Out of the three rebels, Aayta Kohrami, who was active as a militia commander, was carrying a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head, while the two other cadres, identified as Uika Somdu (23) and Kartam Mahendra (22), were working as militia members, he said.

    Mahendra was also wanted in connection with the murder of a person in Timmapuram village in 2018, he said.

    With this surrender, 375 Naxals, including 99 carrying cash rewards on their heads, have so far quit violence in the district under the ‘Lon Varratu’ (term coined in local Gondi dialect for ‘return to your home/village’) campaign launched by police in June last year, the official said.

    Under the initiative, the Dantewada police have put posters and banners in the native villages of at least 1,600 Naxals, mostly carrying cash rewards, and appealed to them to return to the mainstream.