Five RPC members of CPI (Maoist) from Chhattisgarh surrender before police in Mulugu district
Mulugu Superintendent of Police Dr. Shabarish handed over an interim aid of ₹25,000 each to the five surrendered Maoists at the district police headquarters late on Wednesday afternoon.
The surrendered RPC members of the outlawed organisation were involved in several incidents of Maoist violence in Chhattisgarh's south Bastar region, police said.
With this, the total number of Maoists surrendered before the Mulugu district police so far this year reached 47.
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