Ranchi, May 3 -- A fierce encounter broke out between the banned Naxalite TPC and the police in Palamu district of Jharkhand on Friday, officials said. The encounter occurred at Tarhasi police station area of the district. In this encounter, the police have recovered a large amount of Naxalite material. The police are conducting a search operation by cordoning off the entire area.
In the encounter, Palamu police had received information that a squad led by Naxalite commander Shashikant Ganjhu, who has a reward of Rs 10 lakh on his head, had come to carry out some incident in the Tarhasi area. In the light of this information, a search operation was started under the leadership of ASP operation Rakesh Kumar Singh. During the search operatio...