Three insurgents including a couple, surrendered before the police in insurgency infested Narayanpur district in Bastar. The insurgents also handed over an INSAS rifle with live 60 rounds, before Inspector General of Police (Bastar) SRP Kalluri, police said here on Wednesday.
“The surrendered rebels were identified as Ranjeet alias Sheturam, Jano alias Sambatti and Dalsai Vadde alias Santosh. Ranjeet was Section Commander in Platoon Number-2 in Company number-2 of Naxals while his wife Jano was Section Commander in Company-1’, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Narayanpur O.P. Sharma informed. likewise Dalsai was active member of division action team working in Manpur-Mohala region of Rajnandgaon district, he said.
The other insurgent Ranjeet had joined the Naxal cadre in 2001. After undergoing one month training, he was inducted into Platoon Number-1 of the Maoist outfit. It was in 2007 when he was elevated as Deputy Commander of Kohkamet, local Guerrilla Squad (lGS); considering his performance he was made Commander in Platoon-1, the ASP added.
“Ranjeet had participated in different operations carried out by Naxals in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh. He was involved in attacking a police team in Binagunda and Pindmil region of Maharashtra in 2002 wherein five police personnel were injured,’’ he said.
Ranjeet and Jano met each other while working for Naxals and later on they got married, Sharma said.Jano was also involved in attack on police team, damaging school and government buildings, setting fire to vehicles engaged in transportation of food and other commodities for police personnel deputed in restive regions, several ambushes and other, the ASP informed.The insurgents will be rehabilitated as per the surrender policy of Chhattisgarh Government, Sharma said.