A joint team of State Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) killed three cadres of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a splinter group of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), during an encounter at Bundu Village under Keredari Police Station limits in Hazaribagh District of Jharkhand on March 7, reports The Pioneer. Acting upon a tip off from intelligence sources, the 190 battalion of the CRPF and Chatra Police conducted the encounter under Keredari Police limits of the District, around 85 kilometers North West of State Capital, Ranchi. The Security Forces (SFs) recovered an AK-47, two Automated Machine Guns from the encounter site. The identities of the slain TPC extremists were yet to be established.