Apprehending police encounter, 10 Maoists, including a woman, on Tuesday surrendered before the police in Malkangiri district.
The Maoists, against whom charges including murder, loot and arson were pending, deserted their camps apparently after realising that they could be killed in police encounter if they did not dissociate with the ultras, Malkangiri Superintendent of Police Akhileswar Singh said quoting them. Besides, they were also fed up with the ill treatment meted out by the cadres from Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in the camps and waiting for an opportunity to escape, he said.
While nine of the surrendered Maoists were militia members, the only woman member was a member of the cultural troupe Jana Natya Dalam of Maoists, Singh said, adding that they belong to Raligada and Tekguda villages in the inaccessible cutoff area of the Balimela reservoir. The surrendered ultras were identified as Puyu Jgara, Pullu Pangi, Rangana Butari, Mathlingam Butari, Prasad Rao Kusangi, Hota Itte, Chinabadi Ettangi, Ramna Thamarbi, Sahadeb Thamarbi, Ramarao Duri and Kokli Golari.