1 woman among 10 Naxals surender in Kondagaon

Ten Naxals, including a woman Maoist, surrendered before the police in the insurgency-hit Kondagaon district in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region.The insurgents were involved in different Naxal activities like attack on police personnel, loot and other offences, a senior police officer said on Monday.They were all members of Naxal Janmilita, an outfit of banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) active in Kiskod region of the district, Superintendent of Police Kondagaon JS Vatti said.

The surrendered ultras were identified as Balram (42) resident of Badedongar, Mangturam Netam (38) of Dhanora, Raijuram (29), Sohan Nureti (32), Sukhram Usendi (30), Sukhdev Usendi (32), Shobha Rama (26), Mangluram Usendi (22), Rammo Kavde (30) all hailing from Amabeda Kanker and Rajman, alias Jagder (27) of Mardapal.    

According to police, in March 2012, one of the surrendered ultras Balram along with others had attacked a SPO posted in Badedongar. Similarly, he was part of team that had attacked polling party in Kotpad jungles during the 2014 lok Sabha elections.Mangturam was involved in looting a school in 2006 and attacked police party same year. Sohan Nureti and others had damaged school building in 2008 at Kiskod, the SP said.  

The woman ultra Rammo Kavde had joined Naxal outfit in 2004 and used to motivate villagers for joining Naxal cadre. The surrendered ultras were dissatisfied by the discrimination in the Maoist outfit, he said.