Six desert TPC to join main Maoist group in Jharkhand

Six activists on Wednesday deserted the Tritiya Prastuti Committee, a splinter faction, to join the main Maoist banned group in Jharkhand. Defying writ of local administration, police and paramilitary, hundreds of activists of Communist Party of India-Maoist, brandishing automatic rifles, and villagers attended the ceremony deep in the forests of Manatu in Palamau district of the Naxal-hit state.