Hours before the beginning of a 24-hour Jharkhand bandh called by banned CPI (Maoists) on Sunday, a gun battle took place between members of another red-rebel outfit and security forces in West Singhbhum district, police said. Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of CRPF and the state police launched a search operation on Saturday night in a forest near Jikilata, Konsia and Huwangdih villages under the Bandgaon Police Station limits, West Singhbhum SP Ashutosh Shekhar said.
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