Hyderabad, March 6 -- Muppala Lakshmana Rao alias Ganapathy, the most-wanted leader of the Communist Party of India (Maoist), is likely to surrender before the Telangana Police in a few days, officers aware of the matter said on Thursday.

According to a senior police officer, Ganapathy, 77, who had been suffering from serious health issues and hiding in Nepal for the last two years, was brought to New Delhi a few days ago and kept under the protection of the special intelligence branch (SIB) police authorities.

On Wednesday, Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy, along with the DGP, intelligence additional DGP and SIB chief, met Union home minister Amit Shah and briefed him about the recent surrender of top Maoist leaders from Telang...