KOLKATA, Oct. 24 -- A Maoist couple, carrying bounty of a few lakh rupees on their head in Jharkhand, surrendered before the Kolkata Police at the latter's headquarters in Kolkata along with their AK-47 and INSAS rifles on Friday afternoon. They couple was identified as Mangal and Malati. Both were members of the West Bengal squad. Police said that Mangal was a close associate of Kishenji, alias Malojula Koteswar Rao, the Maoist top gun who headed the rebels' eastern India operations. Kishenji was killed in an encounter in November 2011, months after the Mamata Banerjee-government came to power earlier that year. "While Mangal has around seven cases pending against him at Salboni in West Midnapore and a few others in Jharkhand, he carries a reward of Rs.5 lakh in Jharkhand. Malati carries a reward of Rs.2 lakh," Ajay Kumar Nand, commissioner of Kolkata Police, told the media. This comes a month after the last central committee member of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), Asim Mandal, was arrested from Polerhat in the eastern fringes of Kolkata in September this year. Mandal alias Akash had around 17 cases pending against him in Jharkhand and about a dozen cases in West Bengal. He carried a reward of Rs.1 crore in Jharkhand. Mangal used to be the bodyguard of Akash. "After 2011 around 13 remaining members of the West Bengal squad moved to Jharkhand. They used to operate in Dalma, Seraikela and Saranda. Most of the members ei6ther surrendered before the Jharkhand and West Bengal police or were arrested," said a senior officer. In June this year, woman Naxalite leader Shakuntala alias Pushpa alias Barsa carrying a bounty of Rs.10 lakh, surrendered before the Kolkata Police. She worked under Misir Besra, the last active CPI (Maoist) Central Committee member at the Saranda forest in Jharkhand....