evidence: January 19: The Madhya Pradesh Police has stepped up security in the CPI-Maoist infested Balaghat District following reports of the movement of Maoists along the Madhya Pradesh-Chhattisgarh border ahead of the Republic Day celebrations on January 26. [...] Hundreds of tribal youths from the Bankura District moved into Lalgarh in the early hours reinforcing the ranks of the Maoist-backed PCPA. [...] A businessman was shot dead by the Maoists in the Lalgarh area.