PTI
SUKMA: (Jul 12) As many as 23 hardcore Naxalites, including three couples, carrying a cumulative bounty of Rs 1.18 crore, surrendered in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Saturday, a senior police official said.
The surrendered Naxalites include 11 senior cadres, most of them active in the Peoples’ Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) battalion no.1, which is considered the strongest military formation of Maoists, the official said.
They turned themselves in before senior police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officials, citing their disappointment with “hollow” Maoist ideology, atrocities committed by Naxalites on innocent tribals and growing internal differences within the banned outfit, Sukma Superintendent of Police Kiran Chavan said.
