40 Years Of Guerrilla Warfare Ends In Surrender: Maoist Devji's Dramatic Fall

For decades, he was a whisper in the forests. A shadow in intelligence files. A name spoken in coded radio chatter. Thippiri Tirupati. Kuma Dada. Devji.Chetan. Sanjeev.Sudarshan and Ramesh. On February Sunday, the man who lived behind those seven names stepped out of the jungle and surrendered before Telangana Police.

At 65, carrying the weight of nearly four decades of insurgency, Devji once the General Secretary and Politburo member of the CPI Maoist laid down arms in Mulugu district. Security officials are calling it one of the biggest breakthroughs in recent years. In Chhattisgarh alone, he carried a bounty of around Rs 1.5 crore. Combined rewards across states reportedly ran into crores.