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Six CPI (Maoist) members from Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh surrender in Kothagudem town

By The Hindu Bureau

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Six CPI (Maoist) members from Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh surrender in Kothagudem town

Impressed by the rehabilitation policy of the Telangana government for surrendered Maoists, as many as six members of the proscribed CPI (Maoist) from Chhattisgarh’s strife-torn Bijapur district surrendered before the police in Telangana’s Kothagudem town on Thursday, police said.

Those who surrendered include a Local Organising Squad (LOS) Commander of the rank of Area Committee Member (ACM), a party member and four militia members of the banned outfit’s Pamed Area Committee of south Bastar division.

They turned themselves in before Bhadradri Kothagudem Superintendent of Police B. Rohit Raju and officials of the CRPF 81 and 141 Battalions in Kothagudem.

A total of 320 members of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) have surrendered before Bhadradri Kothagudem police so far this year.

These include four Divisional Committee Members, 22 ACMs, 41 party members, 120 militia members and 34 Revolutionary People’s Committee (RPC) members, 47 members of Dandakaranya Adivasi Kisan Mazdoor Sanghatan (DAKMSs) and KAMSs, 30 Chetna Natya Manch (CNM) members, and members of other Maoist frontal organisations.