A hardcore Maoist carrying a cash reward of Rs 5 lakh on his head surrendered in the restive Dantewada district of Bastar, police said here on Sunday.
According to the police, the insurgent was deeply dissatisfied with the hollow ideology of Maoists and shabby treatment meted out to him by the fellow cadres.
“Mangat alias Diwakar (35) resident of Maraskol village in Narayanpur district has given up arms,” Superintendent of Police (SP) Dantewada Kamlochan Kashyap said.
Diwakar had joined Naxal cadre in 2006 and was actively involved in various Naxal incidents, the SP said while adding that seeing his activity he was made the President of Naxal Jantana Sarkar of Panchayat level.
“After working as Jantana Sarkar President, he was promoted in 2009 as Area Committee Member. In 2014 he was shifted to DKAMS (Dandakaranya Kisan Adivasi Majdoor Sangh),” the SP mentioned.
Associated with Maoists for more than a decade, he was involved in several serious Naxal incidents like the attack on the party of 39th battalion CRPF near Maharabeda under Dhaudai police station in 2010, in which 27 jawans were killed, SP Kashyap said.
In 2016, Diwakar also took part in the ambush attack on a police party near Kilem Tetam in which a sub-inspector was killed.