Cops hold back CRPF jawans

LALGARH:Enthused with the PCPA's capturing Dharampur, a mob attacked the CPM partyoffice at Lalgarh, hardly 400 metres from Lalgarh police station. According topolice, it was a ploy to engage them in a bloody confrontation and fan localsentiments. But they held themselves back.With CPM men taking totheir heels in some of these areas, a section of the CRPF on duty wanted toenter the villages, but were denied permission by the state police. Seniorpolice officers met at Midnapore town on Tuesday and held that they would notencourage "disjointed operations". "Our target is the Maoists, not the tribals.If CRPF entered the villages, there were chances of them getting mobbed byvillagers prompting the jawans to open fire," a police officer said.