UP government reiterated that law and order was its top priority and the accused involved in cases of gang rape and murder will be brought to justice and the government will not tolerate laxity of the law enforcing agency in such matters.
Opposing the adjournment notice moved by the leader of opposition Swami Prasad Maurya, the parliamentary affairs minister Azam Khan said the government has taken strong action in the case of gang rape and murder in lucknow and the named accused in similar case in Ballia will also be soon behind the bars.
BSP leader raising the issue said in the state assembly on Wednesday that the criminals rule the roost in UP and even the school and college going girls were not safe in the state. He alleged that the law and order has collapsed in the state and the government seems to have lost control over the police force. He said in state capital a girl was gang raped and later murdered and the body was thrown in the high security zone near the official residence of the chief minister and the office of the director general of police.
Maurya alleged that in a similar incident a girl was gang raped and murdered. He said police was protecting the named accused in the FIR and they have not been arrested. Maurya alleged that the accused are being sheltered by a politician of the ruling party and the police could not muster the courage the accused named in the FIR for gang rape and murder.
Replying to the notice Azam Khan said the Ballia incident was a serious matter and the accused would soon be arrested. He said in the lucknow incident was a heinous crime and there were so many things related to that case they cannot be shared with the members of the house. The Speaker after the minister’s reply rejected the notice.
Suresh Khanna of the BJP through another adjournment notice raised the issue of prevailing insanitary conditions of cities of the stare for the lack of adequate number of sanitation employees. He said the state government in 2005 had banned the fresh recruitment of the sanitation employees and garbage collection and city cleaning work has been given to outsource employees.
Opposing the notice parliamentary affairs minister Azam Khan, who is also the urban development minister said to counter the problem of insanitation in the urban centers of the state the state government would soon start the process of 35,000 sanitation employees in the urban local bodies.
Meanwhile the Speaker of the assembly Mata Prasad pandey administered the oath of office to the Kapil Dev Agarwal, the newly elected BJP MlA from the Muzaffarnagar assembly seat. Kapil Dev Agarwal had won this seat where the by election was held earlier this month. BJP had wrested this seat from the Samajwadi party. The by poll was held due to the death of the sitting SP member and former minister of state Chitranjan Swrup.