Two Naxals surrender in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur

Two Naxals Baldev and Jairam with a bounty of Rs one lakh each on their heads, surrendered before the police in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district. Both of them had joined the Naxal ranks at a very young age and decided to surrender after being fed-up of their "hollow" ideology.

Narayanpur (Chhattisgarh):Two Naxals, who carried a bounty of Rs one lakh each on their heads, surrendered before the police in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district on Saturday.

The two Naxals surrendered in the presence of Narayanpur Superintendent of Police Mohit Garg, and expressed their desire to join the mainstream.

Garg informed that the two Naxals, Baldev, and Jairam had joined the Naxal ranks at a very young age and decided to surrender after being fed-up of their "hollow" ideology.

Garg said that Baldev had joined the Naxals way back in 2012. Even after his parents had died and he was severely injured in an incident, the Naxals refused to let go of him. Fed up, he decided to surrender, Garg said.

Similarly, Jairam had also been with the Naxals since the age of 15, he said.

The SP said that both the surrendered Naxals were involved in several incidents and encounters with the police in 2013 and 2018.

The development comes just a week after eight Naxals, five of them collectively carrying a bounty of Rs 16 lakh on their heads, surrendered in two districts of Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Bastar division on independence day.

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