Overview

• Ruben surrendered before Warangal Police Commissioner Sunpreet Singh on Tuesday in Hanamkonda.
• The 67-year-old carried a ₹8 lakh reward and held posts including South Bastar Division Committee Secretary and Dandakaranya Special Zonal Committee member.
• Officials said he left underground life due to illness, declining strength, erosion of belief in Maoism, and public resentment toward violence.
• He intends to join the state’s rehabilitation and resettlement programme to live with his family.
• Police detailed a decades-long trajectory from radicalization at REC/NIT Warangal and service in Kunta-Bastar to a 1991 arrest, a 1992 Jagdalpur jailbreak, and post-2005 inactivity while aiding cadres.