RAIPUR: In a breakthrough in Chhattisgarh's anti-Naxal campaign, 23 Maoists, carrying a Rs 1.18 crore reward, surrendered before senior police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officials in Sukma district on Saturday.
The surrendered cadres carried a cumulative bounty of Rs 1.18 crore, with 11 of them listed as senior operatives in the Maoist hierarchy.
Among the group was Podiam Bhima alias Lokesh, a divisional committee member accused of orchestrating the 2012 abduction of Sukma's first collector, Alex Paul Menon.