Zero-tolerance on crime in place: CM
KANPUR: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said his government has not deviated from its zero-tolerance policy on crime and will firmly deal with criminals, no matter how influential they might be.
He made the remark amid a nationwide outcry over the delayed action against his party MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in the Unnao rape case.
“As soon as the matter came to the notice of the government on April 9, we immediately constituted a SIT (Special Investigation Team) and initiated action in the matter... The policemen and doctors found guilty in the SIT report were suspended. We then promptly referred the case to CBI. The CBI took up the case, maybe the MLA is already in their custody by now,” Adityanath said on the sidelines of a
› We will firmly deal with criminals, however influential they might be. The law is one for all, and the punishment for a crime too will be the same for all, irrespective of who the offender is. YOGI ADITYANATH, chief minister
government function.
“Our government will not compromise on the zero-tolerance policy it has followed against crime and corruption since the beginning. We will firmly deal with criminals, however influential they might be. The law is one for all, and the punishment for a crime too will be the same for all, irrespective of who the offender is,” said the chief minister.
Senior minister and spokesperson of the UP government, Sidharth Nath Singh said the law will take its own course and lashed out at the opposition for “shedding crocodile tears” on the issue of safety of women.
The process of recommending a CBI inquiry was promptly completed, the central probe agency has already taken over the case and detained the accused MLA for questioning, he said.
On the opposition parties accusing the Uttar Pradesh government of “delaying the MLA’s arrest”, Singh referred to the former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav having “shielded rape accused minister” Gayatri Prajapati.
He also referred to Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s remarks that “should a rape accused be punished with hanging? Boys are boys, they make mistakes.”
Singh also said, “Those who are raising a hue and cry, are shedding crocodile tears for women... Those who held a candlelight march last night should remember that the ‘tandoor case’ had taken place during their government and what all were done by their men.”
He was referring to Congress president Rahul Gandhi taking part in a candlelight vigil in New Delhi on Thursday night to protest the growing incidents of violence against women.
The famous ‘tandoor case’ involved former Youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma, who was given a life term in the sensational murder case of his wife, Naina Sahni, in which the body of the victim was disposed of by putting it in the tandoor of a restaurant in the national capital in 1995.