TURA: Dealing a body blow to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) six of its hardcore cadres along with an area commander surrendered before police here on Monday.
The six GNLA cadres — Kasan Ch Marak (20) alias Habraghat, Simarong S Sangma (24) alias Sainal, Chakseng Ch Marak (24) alias Malran, Jemistar D Sangma (21) alias Deniram and Tengku S Sangma (19) alias Watcheng including the outfit’s Dadenggre area Commander, Manan Ch Sangma (30) alias Kimpret surrendered before IGP, Western Range, H Nongpluh in the presence of West Garo Hills Deputy Commissioner, Pravin Bakshi, district police chief Mukesh Kr Singh and 5th Meghalaya Battalion Commandant, Aditya Goenka besides others.
The surrendered cadres also deposited arms and ammunition including an AK-56 along with two magazines, 82 live AK rounds, two 7.56 pistol with 2 magazines, 12 rounds of 7.65 pistol ammunition and one grenade.
All of the surrendered cadres were recruited by the outfit between the years 2010-11 with most of them having received training in the Durama Hill Range.
Meanwhile, West Garo Hills Superintendent of Police, Mukesh Kr Singh informed that the cadres were brought from Rongbrakgre village near Jengjal after they communicated their willingness to return to the mainstream. He also said that the cadres would be kept in the Meghalaya Police Battalion for the time being after which a rehabilitation package would be worked out to enable them to live a normal life.
