Cadres of the Tritiya Sammelan Prastuti Committee (TSPC), a splinter group of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), and Jharkhand Jaguar (JJ) and Ranchi Police exchanged fire in the Sumu Forest of Budhmu area in Ranchi District of Jharkhand on January 29, reportsprabhatkhabar.com. 40 rounds of bullets were fired from both sides. It is said that the TSPC squad included ‘zonal commander’ Vikram Mahto, Gurudev, Ramgarh ‘area commander’ Ranjit Mahto and Vinod Mahto alias Murari and other militants, who had come to collect ‘levy’ (extortion money) from the brick kiln operators, were involved in the encounter. However, seeing the Police being overwhelmed, the extremists fled. In the search operation after the encounter, the Police recovered 777 cartridges, seven walkie-talkies, two pouches for keeping cartridges etc., from the encounter site.