Six Naxalites including a woman, with two rebels carrying a collective bounty of Rs 2 lakh on their head, surrendered in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Monday, police said.
The surrendered Naxalites who were active in the Malanger Area Committee turned themselves in before the police in Aranpur, Dantewada Superintendent of Police Abhishek Pallava said.
One of the surrendered Naxalites, Gunda Hemla (32), the Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Majdoor Sangthan (DAKMS) President, and a woman, Bhinde Hemla alias Bide (23), President of Chetna Natya Mandli, a cultural wing of the Maoists, carried a reward of Rs 1 lakh each on their heads.
The other four were lower rung Maoists.
All the surrendered Maoists were involved in incidents of violence, murder of villagers, arson and planting IEDs and pressure bombs to kill security personnel.