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Naxalite gives up arms

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SP assures rehabilitation package to surrendered Maoist

VISAKHAPATNAM: A member of the armed militia of the outlawed Communist Party of India -Maoist, Vantala Koteswara Rao alias Koti (28), surrendered to Superintendent of Police V.V. Srinivasa Rao here on Wednesday.

Koteswara Rao, a native of Kumkumpudi village in G.K. Veedhi mandal, was with the Maoist party since 1990. After undergoing armed training in Gurthedu area, he worked with the Korukonda dalam from 1992 to 1995. He was involved in the exchanges of fire with the police at Killamkota in 1993 and Gondupalli next year.

He decided to surrender due to health reasons, according to a police press release. Mr. Srinivasa Rao said that the surrendering naxalite would be extended help under the Government's rehabilitation package.

Warning to `supporters'

The SP said that since the CPI-Maoist and its affiliated organisations like the Radical Students Union, Viplava Rachayitula Sangam (VIRASAM), Rythu Coolie Sangham, etc., have been banned, people should advise those in their family or village, who were willing to leave the Maoist party or desert the dalams, to surrender at the nearest police station. Otherwise the police would consider such people as having connections with the banned Maoist party.

He also urged the people to resist the Maoist party members from storing weapons or explosives in their villages. If not, people in possession of such material would be considered as culprits, the SP warned.

Mr. Srinivasa Rao told the Girijans not to allow their young boys and girls join the Maoist party and also not to allow the Maoist party members into their villages.

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