Two hardcore Naxals carrying cash reward of Rs 5 lakh each on their heads gave up arms before police and district administration officers here on Thursday, police said.
“Both Naxals, who were dissatisfied with the violence and Maoist ideology, gave up arms during a district level ‘Kabbadi’ event. They were involved in various serious Maoist attacks that had claimed lives of over 20 men,” Superintendent of Police (SP) Dantewada Abhishek Pallav said.
They were identified as Hadma Mandavi alias Hariram alias Midkom alias Raju (28) and Mada Madkami alias Hadma (22) both residents of Katekalyan police station limits in the district, police informed.
Hadma Mandavi was Katekalyan area committee member and Peddras LOS (local organizing squad) commander, while Mada Madkami was also a member of Katekalyan area committee and Katekalyan area Janmilita commander, police said.
Hadma had joined Maoist cadre in 2010 as a Sangham member and by 2018 he was promoted as LOS commander. In 2014 he was involved in killing of Toylanka Sarpanch and in 2015 he was part of Maoists team that killed a man suspecting him as police informer in Tongpal village. Police was searching him in connection with murder of Metapal Turrempara Sarpanch Dharmu Kurami and Kosa Madvi in Chhindgarh. Both were killed in 2016.
Apart from killings in 2018, and 2019 he was also wanted for his involvement in blowing up vehicles through IEDs and attacking police party, police claimed.
According to police, Mada Madkami was involved in blowing up a CISF vehicle in Kirandul on May 13, 2012 wherein 5 CISF jawan and a civilian was killed. He was also part of Maoist team that executed deadly ambush in Shyamgiri hills wherein 6 jawans were killed.