SAA event in Jharkhand, Gendra, Chatra District area, India on Sun 28th December 2025

Two former cadres of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a splinter group of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), were killed and two others seriously injured in a violent clash that led to firing between two rival groups in the Gendra village under the Kunda Police Station limits in Chatra District of Jharkhand on December 28, reports The Assam Tribune. The deceased have been identified as Devendra Ganjhu and Churaman Ganjhu. According to the Police, both groups involved in the clash were previously associated with the TPC. Devendra Ganjhu, accompanied by some of his associates, arrived at the residence of Shyam Bhokta, a resident of Gendra village. An argument reportedly broke out between Devendra Ganjhu and Shyam Bhokta over an old dispute. The verbal altercation soon escalated into a violent confrontation. It is alleged that during the clash, Devendra Ganjhu and his associates opened indiscriminate fire. Shyam Bhokta and his brother-in-law, Gopal Ganjhu, sustained serious gunshot injuries in the firing. In the retaliatory firing that followed, Devendra Ganjhu and his associate Churaman Ganjhu were killed on the spot.