Naxal Couple Carrying Bounty of Rs 7 Lakh Surrender in CG

Naxal couple carrying reward surrenders in Dantewada.They carried a reward of Rs 7 lakh altogether. Hurra Kunjam and his wife Budhari Madvi were members of the platoon number 24 under Malangir area committee of Maos.

Dantewada: A wanted Naxal couple together carrying a reward of Rs 7 Lakh together surrendered before the security forces in Dantewada on Tuesday, police said.

The surrender stemmed from disappointment with the hollow Mao ideologies and exploitation of lower-rung cadres senior ultras, Dantewada SP Siddharth Tiwari said.

Hurra Kunjam and his wife Budhari Madvi turned themselves in before senior police and CRPF officials. Reportedly, Kunjam was the section commander of platoon number 24 under Malangir area committee of Maos and his wife was a member of the same squad.

As per the information conveyed the police dept, the couple was involved in the Burkapal (Sukma drict) Mao ambush in 2017, in which 25 security personnel were killed, and the Mailwada (Dantewada) landmine attack in 2016, in which seven CRPF personnel died.

So far around 539 Naxal including 130 carrying bounties on their heads have quit violence under the “Lon Varattu’ campaign being run the Dantewada police since June 2020.