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'Give Up Crime Or Leave The State': UP Police Arrested Over 30,000 Criminals Since 2017; Over 9,000 Injured, 238 Killed In Encounters
UP Police maintain law and order as part of CM Yogi Adityanath’s mission to eliminate crime from the state. | (File Photo)
Uttar Pradesh Police since 2017, have carried out nearly 15,000 encounters under their ‘zero-tolerance’ crime policy, reported The New Indian Express.
During these operations targeting fugitives and repeat offenders, the UP police arrested 30,694 criminals, while over 9,000, were injured and 238 killed who were mostly fugitives and repeat offenders.
Director General of Uttar Pradesh Police Rajeev Krishna said the department has maintained an aggressive crackdown on crime.
“Over the last eight years, 14,973 operations have been carried out, resulting in the arrest of 30,694 criminals. Of them, 9,467 who attacked police were shot in the leg, while 238 were killed in encounters,” Krishna was quoted as saying in the TNIE report.
To counter allegations that encounters concealed investigative failures, the state issued fresh guidelines last year to enhance transparency.
The new rules require videography of both the encounter site and postmortem examination.
The investigation would not be given to the police station under whose jurisdiction the encounter had taken place and the investigating officer would be at least one rank above the officials involved in the encounter, the guidelines stipulated.
The highest number of arrests and injuries occurred in the Meerut zone, where police arrested 7,969 criminals and 2,911 were injured.
In Gautam Buddh Nagar, 1,983 criminals were arrested and 1,180 injured— the highest in any commissionerate.
DGP Krishna said CM Yogi Adityanath’s administration had modernised police weapons and training to enforce law and order.
He added, “Criminals have no place in Uttar Pradesh. They must either give up crime or leave the state.”
