As many as 18 Naxalites, including a platoon commander of a militia platoon and three women, surrendered on Wednesday in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada, a senior police officer said.
Hidma Oyam (34) was working as a platoon commander of the Hurrepal Panchayat militia (HPMP), said Dantewada superintendent of police Gaurav Rai.
The three women are identified as Sambati Oyam (23), who worked as deputy commander of the HPMP, Gangi Madkam (28), the vice president of Kakadi Panchayat Krantikari Mahila Adivasi Sangthan (KAMS), of the banned CPI (Maoist), and Hungi. Oyam (20), member of Chetna Natya Mandli, the cultural wing of the CPI (Maoist).
“The 18 Naxals laid down their arms in front of the police and CRPF officials. They were part of the Maoist committees of Bhairamgarh and Malanger areas in south Bastar,” Rai said.
He said the Naxals surrendered impressed by the “Lon Varratu” police rehabilitation campaign and disappointed by the hollow Maoist ideology.
“These cadres were tasked with digging roads, felling trees to block roads and putting up posters and banners during the lockdowns called by the Naxalites. They will be provided facilities as per the government’s surrender and rehabilitation policy,” the SP added.
With this, 738 Naxalites, including 177 of them with bounties on their heads, have so far joined the mainstream in Dantewada district, officials said.
Security forces have launched an offensive against Naxalites in left-wing extremism (LWE) affected districts of Chhattisgarh.
Naxalites suffered the highest number of deaths in a single encounter in the history of the state’s fight against LWE on April 16, when security forces shot dead 29 Naxalites in Kanker district.
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