Five senior Naxals including two female ultras carrying cash reward to the tune of Rs19 lakh on their heads surrendered before police on Monday.
The left wing extremists who decided to give up violence were actively involved in different serious Naxal incidents like, loot, murder, attempt to murder and abduction, Superintendent of Police (SP) Kanker JS Meena informed.
The ultras laid down their arms in presence of District Collector Shammi Abidi and other officials of police department.
The surrendered insurgents have been identified as Ramsai Dugga alias Suklu alias Krishna, Juru Salam, Basontin alias Sandhya alias Basanti alias Juri Gavde, Milap alias Nilaap Usendi and Manki Dhruv alias Surekha alias Surekha alias Rekha.
According to police, Ramsai Dugga was Commander of Naxal platoon number-5 working under the North Bastar Division of banned organisation Communist Party of India (Maoist). He used to carry AK-47 assault rifle and state Government had declared cash reward of Rs8 lakh on his head.
In the Naxal organisation he was mainly bestowed with responsibility for providing logistic support to Maoists but he also participated in different offensives carried out by the lWEs, police said.
In 2008, he had participated in a Naxal ambush at Chhindpal village under Badgaon police station wherein 3 police personnel had died. In 2009 he was part of the Naxal team which had laid down ambush in Pakhanjur block wherein 2 police personnel had lost their lives while a lady police was abducted. In the same year Ramsai with other Naxals had executed a deadly ambush at Koylibeda in which 3 police personnel were butchered. In 2010, 5 police personnel were killed in a Maoist attack at Durgkondal. Ramsai was part of the team carrying out attack SP Meena informed.
Milap alias Neelap Usendi who was Commander Platoon number 1 of company number-5 of CPI(M) also carried cash reward of Rs8 lakh on his head. He closely worked with Ramsai and had participated in all the major Naxal attack of which Ramsai was part, the SP said.
“Milap was also member of a 6 member small action team constituted for killing Jagbandhu Majhi a MlA from Odisha,” SP added.
Manki Dhruv according to the SP was commander of Naxal tailor unit.She used to carry a 12 bore gun and had also worked as member ofMaoist local Operating Squad (lOS) active in Charagaon region. She wasmostly involved in damaging public property, the SP added.