Ranchi:
Three persons, including the head of a parallel outfit called 'Sastra
People's Morcha' (SPM), were killed in a Maoist attack in Jharkhand's Chatra district
on Tuesday. According to police, the incident took place in Rajpur village where
Umesh Mali, the head of the SPM, Umesh Singh Bhokta, a local leader of the Lokjanshakti
Party, and another person, were watching a cultural programme. Umesh Mali and
two others died on the spot when the Maoists fired on them. A teenaged girl and
two others were also injured. The CPI (Maoist) is involved in a turf war with
the SPM, the Jharkhand Prastuti Samiti and the Tritiya Prastuti Samiti.
