Maoist leader Jani Salem, the prime accused in the sensational murder of Umarkote MlA Jagabandhu Majhi, has surrendered in Andhra Pradesh.
Salem of the Chhattisgarh Mainpur division of the outlawed CPI(Maoist) surrendered before the State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) headquarters in Hyderabad on January 31, Nabarangpur district informed that Brijesh Kumar Ray on Thursday.
He said IIC of Kundei police station Satyanand Patra and some officers of the Anti-Naxal Cell have left for Hyderabad to interrogate Salem. A clear picture would emerge after the team returns from Hyderabad, Ray added.
It may be mentioned that miscreants had shot at Jagabandhu Majhi and his PSO Prasant Patra from pointblank range at Gona Hatpada under Raighar block in Nabarangpur district on September 24, 2011 while he was distributing forestland pattas to beneficiaries under the Forest Rights Act. The Odisha Government had then ordered for a probe into the murder by the Crime Branch police.