Kandhamal, November 16: A Maoist couple active for the past seven years in Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, surrendered before IG (Southern Range) Niti Sekhar in Kandhamal district police on Sunday.
The surrendered couple were identified as Unga Kalmu alias Kishore, 25, and his wife Mase Madvi, 22. They are the residents of Chhattisgarh. They were the members of the Bansadhara-Ghumsar-Nagabali (BGN) division.
They turned themselves in before police officials at the Kandhamal District Police Headquarters.
Their task was to reactivate the North-South corridor from Jharkhand to Chhattisgarh through south-centre Odisha. They both were working in CPI (Maoist) organisation since 2018 and were involved in several violent incidents both in Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
According the couple, they surrendered due to anti-Naxalite operations in interior areas of Kandhamal district and continuous unethical activities like sexual harassment of female cadre, extortion of funds through intimidation and induction of young boys and girls in the Maoist outfit by false promise and propaganda.
IG Niti Shekhar said that the couple would be suitably rehabilitated under the surrender and rehabilitation scheme of the Government, which includes financial assistance, homestead land, house build assistance, education assistance, vocational training with monthly stipend and join in the mainstream of society.
“We appeal to all disillusioned cadres who have chosen the wrong path by misleading propaganda, to come forward and surrender before us. The surrender policy of Government of Odisha will help them to lead a normal and happy life in the mainstream,” said the IG.
