Six members of Sashastra People's Morcha (SPM), a naxalite outfit mostly active in Jharkhand, were shot dead in Tardih forest in Rohtas, AIG (operations) S K Bharadwaj said.
The victims, involved in armed resistance against the CPI (Maoist), were renegade members of the organisation, Bharadwaj said.
Those killed were from Barachatti and Mohanpur areas of Gaya district close to Jharkhand border, he said.
Bharadwaj denied that those killed were police informers.