An exchange of fire took place between Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a splinter group of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres and Police personnel including Jharkhand Jaguar personnel in Jiruhala forest of Rajguru village in Balumath Police Station limits of Latehar District in Jharkhand on April 18, reports Prabhat Khabar. Security Forces (SFs) were conducting the search operations in the area after a tip-off received by the Latehar Superintendent of Police (SP), TPC cadres started firing at the Police personnel and managed to escape by taking advantage of the darkness. The SFs recovered a loaded 7.62 mm Self Loading Rifle (SLR) and four live cartridges and a desi 315 bore loaded rifle, which included three cartridges along with the magazine, as well as two sticky uniforms and two empty magazines of INSAS (Indian Small Arms System) assault rifle. TPC Regional Commander Aarak ji alias Ravindra Bhairav Ganju alias Bhaskar alias Pradeep Ganju alias Prabhat ji were planning to carry out a major incident with their 15-16 TPC militant squad, said Balumath Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO), Ajit Kumar.