Hyderabad, March 7 -- In a significant breakthrough in Telangana's anti-Naxal operations, 130 cadres of the CPI (Maoist) surrendered on Saturday, handing over 124 weapons to the police, including INSAS and AK-47s rifles, many of which had been looted earlier from police forces, Telangana DGP B Shivadhar Reddy said on Saturday.

"130 cadres of the CPI (Maoist) party surrendered today. They handed over 124 weapons to the police, including INSAS and AK-47 rifles. All these weapons were looted from the police force. This is a major success for the government and the Telangana Police Force," Reddy told reporters here.

The surrender programme took place in the presence of Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy at the Integrated Command and C...