Malkangiri: A day after 57 left wing extremism supporters, including 25 women, gave up before the sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) here, 117 more Maoist sympathisers, including 34 women and 14 militia members, Monday surrendered before the police in Malkangiri district.
The rebel supporters belong to Barha village in Mathili police station area, Malkangiri superintendent of police (SP) Mitrabhanu Mohapatra said.
They include seven village committee members and three members of the Chetna Natya Madali, the cultural wing of the Naxals, the SP said, adding they surrendered with a pledge to shun the path of violence and join the mainstream.
The Naxal supporters were working for the Darava division of the outlawed CPI (Maoist). They will be rehabilitated as per the surrender and rehabilitation policy of the state, the SP said.
57 Maoist sympathizers, all of them belonging to Tangaguda village in Chitrangapalli panchayat in this district had surrendered Sunday. Eleven of them were militia men while two were members of the village committee.
Earlier, 19 Maoist sympathisers belonging to Katuapadar village under Kartanpalli panchayat in Mathili block had surrendered before the police last week. PNN
