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57 Naxals surrender before police in Odisha

News Agencies | Updated on: 14 February 2017, 5:55 IST

As many as 56 Naxals, including twenty five women, surrendered before the police in Odisha's Malkangiri district on 13 March.

Around 56 Maoists belonging to the Odisha-Chhattisgarh Naxal Darava division - including 17 Maoists belonging to the Odisha cadre, surrendered before Chhattisgarh Bastar IG on 11 March.

Around 50 more Maoist sympathisers had surrendered before the Malkangiri Superintendent of Police on 7 March. Earlier on 5 March, 158 Maoists supporters, including a few militia commanders of the CPI (Maoists), had surrendered before the police in Malkangiri district.

-ANI

First published: 13 March 2016, 5:39 IST