LUCKNOW, March 17 -- Since assuming office in March 2017, chief minister Yogi Adityanath's administration carried out a crackdown on criminals and the mafia resulting into total 222 dreaded criminals neutralized in police encounters and 8,118 criminals injured in operations.

Also, 20,221 wanted criminals with bounties were arrested while 79,984 criminals were booked under the Gangster Act as well as 930 offenders were charged under the National Security Act (NSA), and illegal assets worth Rs.142 billion 46 crore 18 lakh confiscated or demolished, claimed a press note from the CM media cell.

The press note stated that the CM turned the impossible into reality-establishing a governance model where every resident feels secure, knowing that...