Andhra Pradesh

Top naxal operative surrenders to police

Special Correspondent

HYDEERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh police on Tuesday got a breakthrough in the investigation of rocket launchers case when a top naxal operative Srinivas Reddy, the mastermind behind the fabrication of rocket launchers, surrendered himself to the police in Warangal district.

His wife, identified as Sudharani, also surrendered herself to the police. The couple, wanted by Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu police, was on the run ever since the State police seized a huge consignment of launchers and rockets while being taken into the jungles in Mahabubnagar district in the first week of September.

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