RAIPUR: A hardcore Maoist - described by police as "Bijapur's most violent Naxal commander" - who was involved in multiple ambushes that claimed the lives of at least 100 security personnel has surrendered before Bijapur police.
Cops identified him as Dinesh Modiyam, secretary of Gangaloor committee - a unit feared for brutal murders of villagers, off-duty police personnel, and even fellow cadres. He was in the rank of "divisional committee member" in the insurgent outfit, said an officer.
Dinesh and his wife Kala Tati, a Maoist "area committee member", came with their child to surrender. Police said he gave up arms because he feared for his own life. Now that the Maoist organisation is battered and its cadres scattered with haphazard command and control, Dinesh's bloodthirsty past was coming back to haunt him, and he feared he would be killed by his own men, said an officer.
Dinesh's surrender is being seen as a body blow to Maoists but it puts the Chhattisgarh administration in a quandary.
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Rashmi is a Special Correspondent with The Times of India in Chha...
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