A wanted woman Maoist rebel, Sukmati alias Basanti, surrendered before the police in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur District on Friday.
Sukmati worked as the head of the National Park Area Committee of the Maoists and had a bounty of Rs.800,000 on her head. She was wanted for her involvement in an attack which killed three people.
Disillusioned by the system and practices of Maoists, Sukmati became a police informer in 2012 but formally surrendered on Friday.
Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), I.K. Eleseela, said that four other Maoists had also surrendered before the police.
"Influenced by the rehabilitation programme of the Chhattisgarh government five Maoist rebels, who worked as members of their military platoons and in other capacities, have surrendered and all of them have been given a government job," said Eleseela.
Sukmati was also given Rs.10,000 by the police.
Maoists, also known as 'Naxals' in India, seek the violent overthrow of the Indian state and have fought authorities for decades, particularly in rural areas of central and eastern India where they enjoy some support.
The Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of peasants and landless labourers. They routinely call strikes, attack government property and target politicians and police, mostly across swathes of rural India's east and south.
They have killed police personnel and politicians and targeted government buildings and railway tracks in insurgent acts, killing thousands since the 1960s.
