Thirteen militia members of Korukonda area committee of the Maoists surrendered before the police in the district today.
The surrendered militia members were identified as Tambelu Nageswara Rao (40), Vanthala Mangaraju (35), Tambelu Nookaraju (32), Tambelu Chinnarao (35), Vanthala Kameswara Rao (44), Tambelu Shivrao (35), Tambelu Krishna Rao (28), Tambelu Subbarao (28), Gammeli Bhaskar Rao (25), Pangi Dasubabu (19), Pangi Chinna Rao (20), Gammeli Venkat Rao (23) and Gammeli Kalibabu (25).
All of them are from Madathakodna village under G Madugula mandal.
They provided logistical support to the ultras in Maddigaruvu and Killamkota areas and were also involved in various offences including snatching of nomination papers in the Nurmathi and Boithili panchayat elections in 2014 and a killing of a person called Bachili Balakrishna in August 2014, police said.
They were also involved in the arson at the ashram of local preacher J Simhachalam at Gudalamveedhi in January this year, police added.
