Following ‘encounter’ death of Naxal leader Vikram Gowda, Karnataka Police seek custody of ex-wife lodged in Kerala jail

“Surrender is the champion policy. The authorities has travel up with a just and equitable surrender argumentation (in May 2024). There are galore ways to surrender and determination are antithetic categories of surrender,” Pronab Mohanty, Director General of Police (Internal Security Division), said successful a property briefing pursuing the shooting of Vikram Gowda connected November 18.

Two cases against Naxal person Savithri

Savithri alias Usha alias Rajitha, who hails from Karnataka’s Chikamagaluru district, was the Kabini Dalam 1 commandant and Area Committee subordinate of the banned CPI (Maoist) earlier she surrendered to the constabulary successful Kerala successful November 2021. She separated from Vikram Gowda implicit ideological differences arsenic chose to participate the mainstream and Gowda — the commandant of Kabini Dalam 2 — continued to clasp connected to a hardline Naxal stance.

Savithri, who joined the Bhavani Dalam of the Maoists arsenic a 23-year-old, is wanted successful Karnataka successful transportation with an onslaught connected the location of an NGO idiosyncratic successful the forests successful the Veroor portion of Belthangady connected November 9, 2013, and a akin lawsuit from 2012. Ramachandra Bhat’s location was allegedly attacked arsenic helium was progressive successful the rehabilitation of tribals extracurricular the forest.

The others accused successful the 2013 lawsuit are Vikram Gowda, who was the person of the group, and the inactive missing Sundari, Jayanna, and different Naxals.

Though the constabulary filed an archetypal C study successful January 2017 indicating that the accused could not beryllium traced, a consequent complaint expanse was filed the aforesaid twelvemonth aft the apprehension of a fishy Ramesh alias Chenni Ramesh alias Madhava successful Bengaluru successful March 2017. Ramesh was, however, acquitted successful October 2022 successful transportation with the lawsuit of the onslaught connected Bhat’s house.

Savithri surrendered successful 2021 amid mounting unit from the constabulary successful Karnataka and Kerala connected the Maoists successful the forests. She surrendered on with B G Krishnamurthy alias Vijay, 50, who was the senior-most subordinate of the Naxals successful Kerala and Karnataka’s Western Ghats. Angady Suresh alias Pradeep, a Naxal from Karnataka who was successful the Vikram Gowda group, surrendered to the Kerala Police successful Kannur successful February this twelvemonth aft being injured successful an elephant onslaught successful the forest.

Many of the Naxals lodged successful prisons successful Kerala person reportedly been trying to get their comrades who don’t privation to surrender to participate the mainstream after facing the ineligible consequences of past crimes as per the authorities government’s surrender policy.

From a radical of astir 19 Naxals from Karnataka, who moved to Kerala successful 2019, lone 5 — including 3 women named Mundgaru Latha, Sundari, and Vanajakshi; and 2 men Jayanna and Ravi — are inactive astatine large. Jisha from Kerala and Ramesh from Tamil Nadu are reported to beryllium portion of the Kerala radical that returned to Karnataka successful February this year.