Three Naxals surrender in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada

With this surrender, 375 Naxals, including 99 carrying cash rewards on their heads, have so far quit violence in the district.

Three Naxals, one of them carrying a reward of ₹1 lakh on his head, have surrendered in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, an official said on Tuesday. The cadres were allegedly involved in planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs), damaging roads and bridges and putting up Maoist posters and banners in the interiors of Dantewada and neighbouring Sukma districts since 2015, he said. They turned themselves in before police in Dantewada on Monday, saying they were impressed by the police’s rehabilitation drive ‘Lon Varratu’ and disappointed with the “hollow” Maoist ideology, Dantewada Superintendent of Police Abhishek Pallava said.