Two armed cadres of banned outfit CPI(Maoists), including a woman, surrendered in Rourkela SP office here on Tuesday.
Both were stated to be the armed cadres and involved in a series of Maoist incidents and the male cadre, according to police sources, was carrying a cash reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head.
According to police sources, the arrested cadres were identified as Sunita Mundari (20) and Sanjay Munda alias Somra (20). Sunita is a native of Gotad village under latehar district of Jharkhand whereas Sanjay is a native of Sanabajodi village under K Bolang police station of Sundargarh district. Both had joined the Maoist organisation during 2010 and had obtained armed training.
Sunita then had married one Ranjan, also an armed cadre, under the guidance of Prasanta Bose alias Kisan da and was active in Misir Besra group in Saranda, Podhat and Kolhan forest area of Jharkhand. later, during 2015-16, she had moved to different parts of Odisha like Kalahandi, Boudh, Angul, Sambalpur and Sundargarh area along with Maoist troops, source said. Sunita was reportedly also present in two recent encounters with the Rourkela police at Kalo and Sapalata forest area.
Similarly, Sanjay after his joining in 2010 was attached with Anmol alias Samarjee group. During that time Sanjay’s uncle, Nathanel and two of his sons were highly active Maoists and Sanjay obviously was groomed under their tutelage, police sources said. He was active in Saranda, Kolhan and Podhat forest area of Jharkhand and was carrying Rs 1 lakh reward on his head, source added. He was also reportedly present in the two recent encounters at Kalo and Sapalata forest area with Rourkela police.
Rourkela SP Anirudha Singh addressed the mediapersons about these two cadres of CPI Maoists. “Both Sunita and Sanjay had joined in 2010 and were armed cadres of CPI Maoists. During their joining, they say, they were promised to be paid a monthly allowance of Rs 4,000, but were never paid,” said Singh. “After facing regular encounters, particularly after two successive recent encounters, these two were frightened and decided to surrender,” Singh added.