India, July 17 -- A 62-year-old leader of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) and his wife, 50, on Thursday surrendered to the Rachakonda police in Telangana after almost four decades on the run.

Mala Sanjeev alias Lengu Dada and his wife Perugula Parvathi alias Deena were secretariat members of the Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee (DKSZC), Rachakonda police commissioner G Sudheer Babu said.

The two were last operating out of neighbouring Chhattisgarh.

"The couple, who have been underground for nearly four decades, decided to surrender as they were attracted by the Telangana government's rehabilitation schemes. It is a major success of this outreach," Sudheer Babu told reporters.

Mala Sanjeev, a native of Medchal-Malkajgi...