Fivenaxals, including a commander carrying reward of Rs 3 lakh, todaysurrenderedin Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Kanker district, police said.
The cadres, one of them a woman, turned themselves in at the district headquarter before Kanker Superintendent of Police M L Kotwani citing disappointment with "hollow" Maoist ideology and violence.
Thosesurrenderedwere identified as Bislal alias Sukhdev Hidko (28), Shamlal alias Kara Komra, Dhaniram Dugga, Budhram Kowasi (24), Mahesh Kumar (35) and the woman cadre - Pushpa Anchla (24), Kotwani told PTI.
Of them, Sukhdev, commander of section B under military platoon no 33, is a key Maoist member in the region carrying a reward of Rs 3 lakh, he said.
While Pushpa was active as member of Chetna Natya Manch (CNM) - the cultural wing of Maoist, three others were jan-militia members, the SP added.
The rebels expressed their willingness to join the mainstream claiming that they were fed up with hollow ideology, violence and wrong policies of the banned outfit and at the same time impressed by the state's surrender policy, he said.
They will be provided assistance according to the rehabilitation policy of the government, the SP said.
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