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New Delhi: In a significant victory for security forces in the battle against Naxalism, a couple affiliated with the Naxal movement surrendered to police and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on Thursday in the Mohla Manpur Ambagarh Chawki district of Chhattisgarh. The couple, Pawan Tulavi and his wife Payem Oyam, had a combined bounty of Rs 10 lakh on their heads and had been active in left-wing extremism for 17 years.
They surrendered to Superintendent of Police YP Singh, along with Commandants Mukesh Kumar Dhasmana and Vivek Kumar Pandey from the 44th and 27th battalions of the ITBP. Tulavi, also known as Maling, 37, hails from Dorde village in the Mohla Manpur Ambagarh Chowki district and has been serving as the commander of the press unit for the Maad Division as an Area Committee Member (ACM), for which a reward of Rs 5 lakh was announced. After joining the left-wing extremist group in 2008, he worked as a teacher in the Jantana Sarkar of the Maad division from 2013 to 2019 and was promoted to ACM in 2016. Since 2020, he has continuously held the position of Press Unit Commander in the Maad division.
Oyam, 27, is from Tadbalala village in Bijapur district and has been involved with the Indravati Area Committee since 2011. She is currently active in Narayanpur as a Party Platoon Committee Member (PPCM) in platoon number 16, also carrying a bounty of Rs 5 lakh. Prior to this, she worked as a guard for CCM Sonu until 2018. The ITBP noted that over the past 15 years, ongoing operations by police and the ITBP in the former Rajnandgaon district, now Mohla Manpur Ambagarh, have significantly weakened left-wing extremist activities.
