A self-styled ‘area commander’ of the Jharkhand Janamukti Parishad (JJMP), a splinter group of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), was killed in an encounter with the Police at Chorhat under Ramgarh Police Station area in Palamu District of Jharkhand on February 24, reports Devdiscourse. Policemen were on a routine patrol when members of the outfit started firing on them to which the Police personnel retaliated the fire and in the ensuing gun battle, in which one of the extremists was killed. The slain rebel was later identified as Mahesh Bhuiyan, the JJMP's self-styled ‘area commander’, Police said.