Hyderabad, April 6 -- Eighty-six members of the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) surrendered before the Telangana Police at the Bhadradri Kothagudem district police headquarters on Saturday, inspector general of police (multi-zone I) S Chandrasekhar Reddy said.

Among these 86 surrendered Maoists, 82 were from Bhadradri-Kothagudem district, and four belonged to Mulugu district. "They were all operating in the Bijapur forests of neighbouring Chhattisgarh district," Reddy told reporters at Kothagudem.

This is the second such major incident of Maoists' surrender this year in Telangana, after 64 of them surrendered last month before Bhadradri-Kothagudem police, he said, adding that a total of 224 Maoists of various cadres have surr...