Two Naxals surrendered in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district on Friday, police said.
The Maoist rebels turned themselves in before the senior police and CRPF officials, citing disappointment with “hollow” ideology of the Naxal movement, Dantewada superintendent of police Abhishek Pallava said.
The two surrendered rebels were identified as Suden Kawasi (31) and Handoram Poyami (30), both residents of Bhairamgarh area of the neighbouring Bijapur district, he said, adding that both were active as janmilitia members of the Maoists.
The SP said the rebels have also expressed that they were impressed with the surrender and rehabilitation policy of the state government.
The two were associated with the outlawed outfit since 2005 and mainly tasked with spreading the Maoist propaganda in more than a dozen villages in the area, he said.
They were allegedly involved in an attack on security personnel in 2007 in the Barsoor area of Dantewada where one security personnel was killed, he said.
The two surrendered rebels will be provided assistance as per the surrender and rehabilitation policy, the SP said.