Five hardcore Naxals, two of them carrying cash reward of Rs8 lakh each on their head along with three others carrying reward of Rs1 lakh each for their arrest, surrendered before police in the insurgency-hit Dantewada district.
Two of the surrendered Naxals were - Deputy Section Commanders in the Maoist Central Regional Committee (CRC) number-1. The remaining three include a member of Maoist Military Platoon number-16 active, a member of Naxal Chetna Natya Mandali (CNM) and a Janmilitia Commander working in Indravati area of the insurgency riddled Bastar region, Superintendent of Police, Dantewada, Kamlochan Kashyap said.
According to the police, the surrendered guerrillas were identified as lakhu alias Moti Kashyap Ranu alias Raju alias Rajaram Kashyap, Mangesh alias Barsa Sukram Ghasiram Kartami all residents of Narayanpur and Ramuram Alami of Bijapur.
“Rajaram Kashyap was the Deputy Commander of Section-A platoon number 1 of CRC Company-1 while Barsa Sukram was Deputy Commander in Section-B of same CRC company,” the SP said.Rajaram had joined Naxal cadre about 11 years back while he was a minor and since then Rajaram was extensively trained and was actively involved in different brutal Naxal incidents.
He was part of the team that killed 11 policemen in Navagarh, Odisha.Rajaram along with other Naxals had carried out ambush in Balimela Odisha wherein 30 greyhound jawans of Andhra Pradesh police were killed.He had blown up a police vehicle in Kalimela Odisha wherein 15 jawans had succumbed, the SP said.
Barsa Sukhram had joined Naxal cadre in 2005 and was also involved in several incidents of killing police personnel besides looting of their arms. Sukhram too was involved in Navagarh killings. He and other Naxals had attacked a CISF squad in Kalimela dam, (Malkangiri) Odisha where 11 jawans of the paramilitary forces were martyred and two Naxals also killed.
Ramuram though a member of Maoist Cultural Wing was involved in murder of a man at village Gumalnar in 2010. In 2013 and 2014 he had killed two persons on suspicion of being police informers.