A self-style zonal commander of the CPI(Maoist) has surrendered before the police at Medininagar in Jharkhand, the police said on Thursday.
Rajdev Yadav, alias Dev Narayan Yadav, the Koel-Sankh zone committee commander, surrendered on Wednesday, Palamau superintendent of police, Anup Mathew told PTI.
Yadav joined a Naxalite outfit in Bihar in 1995 and rose to the rank of “area commander at Manatu-Pratapur in Palamau division. After formation of the CPI(Maoist) with the merger of all underground Naxalite groups in 2004, he became its zonal commander in 2009 and was active at Chek area in Plamau’s Manatu.
Yadav told the police that he had surrendered because he was not happy with the Maoists’ approach to solving the problems of society, the police said.
He was involved in an attack on a police party in 2005, besides being named in 13 other Maoist-related incidents.