Three Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militia members surrendered before the Police in Visakhapatnam District of Andhra Pradesh on March 20, reports The Times of India. The three surrendered Maoists are identified as Pangi Jagga Rao alias Srinu (31), Pangi Mugiri alias Vishnu (28) and Vnatala Narayana alias Siddu (25). According to Visakhapatnam rural Superintendent of Police (SP), Boddepalli Krishna Rao, Pangi Jagga Rao was involved in 12 murders including the murder of Gemmeli Krishna Rao at Vakapalli on December 14, 2020. Jagga Rao is also alleged to have been involved in mine explosions at Chintalaveedi and in four exchanges of fire with security personnel. Jagga Rao had joined the Maoists in 2006, and worked at Pedabayalu as well as the Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB). He worked in Jana militia and was also a member of Revolutionary People’s Committee (RPC). He has guided many a Maoist squad away from the Police and has played a key role in rescuing the injured. The other militia members who surrendered, Pangi Mugiri and Vnatala Narayana are from the same village, and both joined the Maoist party at a very young age. Mugiri was the ‘commander’ of Jana Natya Mandali (JNM), a cultural wing of CPI-Maoist. SP Krishna Rao and anti-Maoist operations Officer on Special Duty (OSD), Satish Kumar, said that the three surrendered due to their ‘dislike of Maoist ideology, revolt from the public over Maoist activities and also indiscriminate killing of innocent tribal people by the naxals [Left wing Extremists, LWEs]’.