Bhubaneswar, March 11 -- Ten Communist Party of India (Maoist) cadres, including a state committee member with a Rs.55 lakh bounty, surrendered before the Kandhamal police on Wednesday.

The surrender took place at a formal ceremony organised by the Odisha Police at the Reserve Police Ground in Phulbani, where the cadres also laid down arms and ammunition before senior officers of the police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

Those who surrendered include Sanu Pottam alias Nitu, a State Committee Member of the KKBN Division, and Santaei Salam alias Anupa, a Divisional Committee Member of the same division. Two Area Committee Members, Laxmi Madvi alias Sangita and Sunil Telam, were also among those who surrendered, along with si...