Governor Ram Naik congratulated Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav for quick action Uttar Pradesh police had taken to arrest criminals on getting an information on social media.
Raj Bhawan spokesman said that Governor spoke to CM on telephone and also sent him a congratulatory letter.
“It is commendable that the police acted on the basis of report in social media and hope that police will act with such alacrity in future too,” he wrote in his letter to CM.
Naik said that now this has been proved that social media can be an effective weapon in curbing the crime rate.
It may be mentioned that Yadav, through social media, got the information that seven people were coming to lucknow with a huge sum of illegal money. Immediately taking cognizance of the report he instructed the concerned police officers and a sum of over Rs 1 crore was seized from seven people in Bareilly district late last night.
The arrests were made under Fatehganj East police station by the Bareilly police and two four wheeler were also seized from them.