Entertainment » OtherPosted at: May 27 2015 10:39PM CRPF DG Prakash Mishra visits LalgarhLalgarh (WB), May 27 (UNI) The director general of CRPF Prakash Mishra today visited here in West Midnapore district which was once a Maoist stronghold. After holding talks with senior state police officials in Kolkata, Mishra visited Lalgarh and held talks with the senior district police officials and senior officers of the Central force. Mr Mishra took stock of the recent political situation in Jangalmahal and told UNI that CRPF will be there in Jangamlahal and they had no plan to withdraw the force from three Jangalmahal districts of West Midnapore, Purulia and Bankura. Mishra's visit seems significant as the Maoists and their frontal organisation, Peoples Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) had observed a 12-hour bandh in the three districts on Monday demanding release of PCAPA founder Chhatradhar Mahato. Recently, Mahato and five others who arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, had been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Midnapore. Both PCAPA and the Maoists had called the bandh demanding release of all the six people including Mahato. Monday's bandh was the first one in Jangalmahal called by the Maoists and PCAPA after the killing of Maoist military strategist Kishenji in November 2011. Police said the Maoists who had fled Jangalmahal after Kishenji's killing, have now started sneaking into the area from the adjoining Jharkhand state and some of their leaders had already held secret meetings with the villagers in some pockets of West Midnapore district under which Lalgarh falls. Maoists had also put up posters in Arsa, some parts of Ayodhaya Hills and Urma railway station in Purulia district in support of their bandh called on last Monday. Some Maoists posters were also found in dense forest areas in Jhargram Subdivision also. Mishra said they were yet to arrest some top Maoist activists who were trying to reorganise themselves in the region with support from their comrades in states like Jharkhand, Bihar and Orissa. UNI XC-BM SY SK2238Tags: #CRPF DG Prakash Mishra visits Lalgarh