Unknown event in Jharkhand, Chatra area, India on Fri 7th July 2023

Wanted Tritiya Sammelan Prastuti Committee (TSPC/TPC), a splinter group of the Communist Party of India (CPI-Maoist), ‘commander’ Santosh Bhuiyan was arrested by the Palamu Police after an encounter between Police and TSPC/TPC cadres that took place in the Angada Forest area under Kunda Police Station limits in Chatra District of Jharkhand on July 7, reports etvbharat.com. Earlier, Santosh, a resident of the Nagad area of Manatu, had survived the Police-Naxalite [Left Wing Extremist, LWE] encounter at the hands of the Security Forces (SFs) and had fled and entered the border area of Palamu. Bhuiyan has been involved in encounters with SFs in 2021 in Palamu's Manatu Police Station area and in 2022 in Chatra's Kunda Police Station area. After the encounter, the Palamu Police, during their search of the area, recovered many materials, including weapons, from the Naxalites from the encounter spot.